We will be holding our first ever priority campaign workshop this Saturday from 2 to 4 pm at the Eaton Gallery in Downtown Bloomington. Come with ideas of priority campaigns that we can work on as a group! They will be workshopped, expanded upon, budgeted, and timelined in an effort to determine feasibility. We willContinue reading "Priority Campaign Workshop!"
Priority Campaign Meeting
We will hold our annual Priority Campaign Meeting on Saturday, February 24 at 2:00 PM. It will be held at the Eaton Gallery (411 N Center St, Bloomington, IL 61701). Anyone is able to attend this meeting, where we will workshop ideas for projects our group will try to complete in 2024. There are threeContinue reading "Priority Campaign Meeting"
February Newsletter
Welcome to the Bloomington Revivalists newsletter! We have some exciting updates for you. Letter from the President The Revivalists had a pretty fun start to 2024 so far! We met with our fellow urbanists at our January social event at Pizza Payaa. Many new faces in these pictures, everyone is so ready for action thisContinue reading "February Newsletter"
Donate to Our Amazon Wishlist!
Our organization currently relies on community partners like the City of Bloomington and West Bloomington Revitalization Project to acquire materials and tools for our priority campaigns. We cherish these working relationships as a means to further improve our city, but these tools such as trash grabbers, buckets, vests, and gloves require significant coordination and sometimesContinue reading "Donate to Our Amazon Wishlist!"
We’ve Been Featured in a Strong Towns Video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaf0rPfiZ68 This month's video from the national Strong Towns YouTube channel, with over 100,000 followers, prominently featured our group! Mike Pasternock visited one of our trash cleanups last fall and used it as an example of how action can get groups off the ground. Importantly he discusses the Sioux Falls Local Conversation, which has movedContinue reading "We’ve Been Featured in a Strong Towns Video!"
Public Transportation 75 Years Apart
Doing some historical research on transportation in Bloomington-Normal, and I came across this interesting photo from 1949 at the bus stop at Washington and Mason St. Beautiful and sturdy bench. I checked for the current stop, which is one block away at Washington and Oak... Obviously, these two images have a much longer story toContinue reading "Public Transportation 75 Years Apart"
Strong Towns Mention
Here is a link to an article published by Strong Towns about the Bloomington Revivalists.
January Social
Mark your calendars for our JANUARY SOCIAL! We can celebrate making it through another holiday season & being some of the coolest people in Bloomington-Normal When: January 20th at 5:30 PM Where: Pizza Payaa in Uptown Normal (gluten free & vegan options available) We hope to see you there!
Winter Reading
Winter break has given me the free time to actually read for fun, so obviously I decided to read these two books. I read Your City is Sick by Jeff Siegler in just one day. It gives a primer for what is wrong with our cities and ways to fix the problems. Importantly he discussesContinue reading "Winter Reading"
Forum on Housing Crisis
On Tuesday January 9th, about 100 people gathered to hear from Mark Adams of the McLean County Regional Planning Commission about the current housing crisis in Bloomington-Normal. Several members of the Revivalists were in attendance, but before long, much of the room was in agreement that we needed bottom-up solutions to the current shortage ofContinue reading "Forum on Housing Crisis"