Where Corvette Lovers Meet

June 24, 2010
Wall Street Journal
By PAUL INGRASSIA
St. Charles, Ill.

Bloomington Gold is a curious name for an event that has long since left Bloomington, Ill., where it began, and has nothing to do with gold. Instead, it's a celebration of the car that defines rapid transit: the Chevrolet Corvette.

Thousands of Corvette enthusiasts will attend the annual four-day show, which opens Thursday at the Pheasant Run Resort here, about 35 miles west of Chicago. Most will come to admire thousands of Corvettes, old and new. Others will display their Corvettes and have them judged. Still others will bid at the auction of classic Corvettes, which can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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