{"id":191,"date":"2014-08-23T11:03:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/?p=191"},"modified":"2014-08-23T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T16:03:37","slug":"blono-named-38-on-best-college-towns-in-america-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/2014\/08\/23\/blono-named-38-on-best-college-towns-in-america-list\/","title":{"rendered":"BloNo named #38 on Best College Towns in America List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomington-Normal (BloNo) took the 38th spot in the recently released<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/38.Bloomington-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-197\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/38.Bloomington-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"38.Bloomington (2)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/38.Bloomington-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/38.Bloomington-2-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/38.Bloomington-2-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/38.Bloomington-2-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/38.Bloomington-2-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/38.Bloomington-2-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/files\/2014\/08\/38.Bloomington-2-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.bestcollegereviews.org\/50-best-college-towns-america\/\">Top 50 Best College Towns in America <\/a>list published by at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestcollegereviews.org\/\">Best College Reviews<\/a>. The site ranks cities and towns with colleges\u00a0based on their evaluation of livability, student-to-resident ratio. cultural offerings, school presence, and large employers.<\/p>\n<p>Best College Reviews describes BloNo as, &#8220;home to Illinois Wesleyan University and Illinois State University. Through Illinois State University, a number of cultural offerings, sports events, and businesses catering to student nightlife are present. Large employers like State Farm Insurance, Mitsubishi, and Country Financial, coupled with a low cost of living make Bloomington a great location for young college town seekers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomington-Normal (BloNo) took the 38th spot in the recently released Top 50 Best College Towns in America list published by at\u00a0Best College Reviews. The site ranks cities and towns with colleges\u00a0based on their evaluation of livability, student-to-resident ratio. cultural offerings, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/2014\/08\/23\/blono-named-38-on-best-college-towns-in-america-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1994classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}