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Farmers market runs through September
Downtown green, Saturday mornings. The bread stand is back and the cider is worth the trip.
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Normal
Illinois · IL
About Normal
Town in Illinois, United States1865Established
52,736Population
18.7 sq miArea
869 ftElevation
Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. The population was 52,736 at the 2020 census. Normal is the smaller of the two principal cities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and is Illinois's seventh most populous community outside the Chicago metropolitan area. It is home to Illinois State University and Heartland Community College. Founded in 1865, it was renamed Normal in 1867 after Illinois State Normal University (now Illinois State University), a normal school. Chris Koos has been the mayor of Normal since 2003.
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