From rat killing to opera old Coliseum saw itall

From: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL | Date: January 20, 2008| Author: Bill Kemp | Copyright information

U.S. Cellular Coliseum is not the first coliseum in Bloomington history.

From 1898 until 1961, there was an impressively sized, field house-type structure known simply as the Coliseum (this was before the era of corporate naming rights).

In its 62-plus-year history, the old Coliseum, located at Front Street and Roosevelt Avenue, across from where its namesake now stands, played host to a dizzying array of entertainers and entertainments, running from highbrow to lowbrow to everyt...

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