☀️ This week’s INsights

• 📊 Stat of the Day: Indiana GDP reached $416 billion in 2024, good for 19th in the US.

• Indiana’s 14th Governer, Oliver P. Morton was born this week on August 4th, 1823. He served during the American Civil War and was a strong ally of President Abraham Lincoln. 🇺🇸

⚡ Hoosier Headlines ⚡

🛣️ The full stretch of I-69 is set to open - after 16 long years of construction. The “I-69 Finish Line” is the 6th & final section of the newest interstate, and now fully connects Indianapolis to Evansville. Since beginning construction in 2008, the project has included 39 new bridges, 14 new overpasses/underpasses, & enough dirt & stone excavated to fill Bankers Life Fieldhouse more than 20 times. That’s a lot of dirt.

🐖🐄 The Indiana State Fair is in full swing, after starting last Friday. Our fairgrounds cover a whopping 1,000,000 square feet & hosted over 800,000 people last year. If you’ve never been, give it a shot! (Bring your walking shoes.) This week’s events include Buddy Guy, Fearless: The Taylor Swift Tribute, & a live cheese carving 😱🧀

🎰 Electronic charity gaming coming near you? Indiana veterans organizations want to be able to offer an electronic gaming option at their posts. You’ve probably played these paper “pull tabs” games at your local bar. Veterans organizations use money earned from charity gaming to donate to causes around Indiana. A new alliance, PlayIN For Charity, is urging lawmakers to revise the state’s charity gaming laws.

😃 Hoosier Hype 😃

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 💎 Hidden Gem 💎

BLUE SPRING CAVERNS - Have you explored America’s longest underground navigable river yet? Located about 75 miles south of Indy, in Bedford, IN, you can descend 400 FEET below ground for a one-hour river tour.

Once you get down there, you’ll find:

• Rare, blind cavefish

• Blind crayfish in constant search for food

• Spotted red-orange salamanders

• Solitary bats hanging on a high ceilings

• & maybe you’ll even see Brian Grubb eFoiling the River

  

The Suite Life of Zack & Cody’s (2000s kids will know), Dylan Sprouse, visited these caverns for his upcoming movie: The Duel

👏 1 Big wIN 👏

Evansville’s Lilly King Wins Gold 🥇

• It was her final Olympic race, and she helped the US get the job DONE. Lilly swam the breaststroke leg of the 4×100-meter medley relay on Sunday in Paris, and she helped the United States win the gold medal and set a new world record in the event, at 3:49.63. 🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️🏊‍♀️

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