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Bloomington (City and county-seat of Monroe)

city and county-seat of Monroe co., Ind.; on the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville, and the Indianapolis Southern railroads: 60 miles S. S. W. of Indianapolis. It is in a limestone and quarrying region; is the seat of the Indiana State University; and besides its farming and quarrying interests has important manufacturing concerns, especially in the lines of leather and hardware. The city has the Monroe County Library, a National bank, and several daily and weekly periodicals.

Pop. (1910) 8,838; (1920) 11,595.