by:  Diane Benjamin

This information is from another tipster – keep them coming guys!

The following is from :

McLean County, Illinois

Zoning Ordinance

As Adopted August 15, 2000

And Amendments through February 21, 2012

http://www.mcleancountyil.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/45  Page 19

206 OCCUPANCY PERMITS. No land shall be occupied or used; no building or structure hereafter erected shall be occupied or used in whole or in part; no building or structure hereafter relocated shall be occupied or used in whole or in part; no addition to a building, structure or land improvement shall be occupied or used in whole or in part; nor shall any building or structure upon which structural alterations have been made be changed in use until an occupancy permit shall have been made be changed in use until an occupancy permit shall have been issued by the Director of Building and Zoning. Such occupancy permit shall certify that the building, structure, land improvement or part thereof complied with all the regulations of this ordinance. No change of use shall be made in any land, building, structure or land improvement or part thereof without an occupancy permit having been issued by the Director of Building and Zoning, and no occupancy permit shall be issued to make such change unless such change is in conformity with the provisions of this ordinance and amendments thereto. Nothing in this section shall prevent the continuance of the occupancy or use to which any land, building or structure was lawfully devoted on the effective date of this ordinance or any amendment thereto.

The tipster suggested I send a Freedom of Information Act request to the City of Bloomington for the Occupancy Permit issued for the Coliseum.  I did.  This is the response from the City: