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Photo Gallery: Night life of Central Illinois

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  • The Bloomington-Normal 5:00 rush hour ignites the night hours of town.

  • People tend to head out to dinner once work ends at places like Moe’s Southwest Grill.

  • The Veteran’s Parkway area has businesses that rush all night like Chili’s.

  • Eastland Mall tends to get evening customers in it’s variety shops.

  • Once late night hits, movie theaters like Starplex Cinemas get their largest rush of customers.

  • In Bloomington-Normal’s surrounding countryside, the sun sets to silhouette wind farms.

  • In the summer, the sun goes down around 8 o’clock.

  • The local baseball team, the Cornbelters, compete in the fading sunlight.

  • While the rest of the town gets busier, schools are empty inside and out.

  • The football scoreboard patiently waits for its next use during Friday night games in the fall.

  • The moon lights up the clouds of Illinois and brightens up the dark fields of crop.

  • The traffic dies down once businesses start to close. The night life goes dark, but the street lights still shine.

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Rachel Leman, Staff Reporter
Rachel Leman is a fourth-year student at Normal Community High School and a member of the NCHS Marching Ironmen. This is her first year at the Inkspot, and she takes the role of a staff reporter. I tend to be the most comfortable in front of a computer, when I feel like anything is possible because of new international reach. The Internet has changed the way we communicate, and communication between cultures, lifestyles, and personalities is what inspires me the most. The central hub of cultural-blending is an urban city life, which is why my dream is to spend my days writing in New York City, Washington DC, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Paris, or basically any big city across the world. I would even learn a new language if it meant I could write in Dubai, Cairo, or New Dehli, but at this point, the farthest I’ve been from home is NYC.
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