🔔Bells rang out Tuesday evening from the Van Leer Memorial Bell Tower in Normal for the first time in several decades.🔔 The tower was completed in 1940 and rises 110 feet. At the time, the tower cost $40,000 to build — equivalent to $1 million today. It is recognized by the National Register of Historic Places as the only privately-owned bell tower in the United States. The tower will now play music twice daily (noon and 5 p.m.), as it did originally, from an electronic carillon purchased by t