Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington has a rich theater culture, and is home to several professional theater companies, including Broadway Entertainment Company & Cardinal Stage Company. Bloomington also has several community and amateur theaters which include Monroe County Civic Theater as well as the Indiana University Dept. of Theatrical Arts.

Bloomington has been named a Tree City for more than 20 years.  Bloomington is also famous for its rock quarries which residents have been known to use as swimming holes.

Bloomington is the home to Indiana University. Established in 1820, IU has approximately 40,000 students and is the original and largest campus of the Indiana University system. In 1991, Thomas Gaines, a landscape artist, published a book, The Campus As a Work of Art, in which he named the Bloomington University campus one of the five most beautiful in America. Most of the campus buildings are built of Indiana limestone.