A–Z: B

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• Badin's mission and the band that stayed The Story of South Bend
• The Bahá'í Community of South Bend Churches & Religion
• The bald eagle's return: the county's first nests, 2015 Wildlife
• Ball before the minors — the Green Stockings, 1878–1888 Sports
• The Ballpark No Map Keeps: Bendix Field Historical Mysteries
• The Bank of South Bend — the free bank Banks
• The Bank of the State of Indiana — the successor branch Banks
• The Bank Outlots: the first addition was a failed canal's salvage Neighborhoods
• Bank Robberies Section
• The banking record: OCC, Pollock, the FDIC, the Federal Reserve Sources
• Banks Section
• Bantam before Torrington — the bearings works' front end Businesses
• The Baptists: First Baptist Church and the Later Congregations Churches & Religion
• Barns, shops and power Public Transit
• Bars & Nightclubs Section
• Basney: three generations behind a bracket Dealerships
• The beaver: the trade's first casualty, the park's engineer Wildlife
• Before hospitals: the sick at home, and the county's poor Hospitals
• Before the branch: plates by mail, and the notary's desk License Branch
• Before the City Section
• Before the regime: sickness met at home Epidemics & Public Health
• Before the saucers: the airship wave of 1896–97 reaches South Bend UFO Sightings
• Before the web: the bulletin boards Dot-Com Era
• The behavioral-health consolidation, on its eve South Bend Today
• The Belgians belong to the county's other city Communities
• The bend and the portage The Story of South Bend
• The bend itself The St. Joseph River
• Bendix — the starter drive, the brakes, and what remains Businesses
• The Bendix Brakes on the court, 1928–1933 Sports
• The Bendix drive: a Chicago patent that built a South Bend empire Inventors & Inventions
• Bendix Field — fame without a findable ground Famous Landmarks
• Bendix Field — the placement hardened to the far west side; the lot still unlocated Historical Mysteries
• The Bendix Field ballpark question Airports
• Bendix Field: the purchase of 1929 and the opening of 1933 Airports
• Bendix in the world: licenses, brakes and wings Exports
• "Bendix invented the electric starter" Famous Stories & the Record
• "Bendix made 75 percent of America's wartime avionics" Famous Stories & the Record
• The Bendix name in other cities — radios, instruments, computers Technology
• The Bendix sit-down · nine days, or six, that started an era Major Events
• The Bendix Theatre at Century Center Theaters
• Bendix Woods County Park Trails
• The Bendix works at war — the South Bend production record Technology
• The Benevolent-Society Era and the Associated Charities Charities
• Better Homes of South Bend · twenty-two couples buy a street in secret Black History
• Beverly Crone and the county's other firsts Public Servants
• Beyond Our Control: the city's sketch-comedy broadcast Comedy
• The Bicycle's Own Civic History Trails
• The bid: Starks, Krause, Kernan, and a hundred people Halls of Fame
• Big Brothers Big Sisters: the Agency That Closed in 2025 Charities
• Big Cat Tracks: The Master Plan's Final Phase Zoo
• The Big Four at Granger: the county's other New York Central line Railroads
• The big rooms of the 1980s: Mitchell's Indiana Club and Pardner's Bars & Nightclubs
• Bill Dobslaw and the Riviera label: the record side, at its true size Film & TV Producers
• Bingo, raffles, and the license Lottery & Crypto
• The bird's-eye: Ruger's South Bend, 1866 Historic Maps
• The Birdsell Mansion — A Haunting Built in the Tour Era Ghost Stories
• Birdsell Manufacturing Company — the clover huller Businesses
• The Birdsell–Liston district · a whole commercial city, walking distance wide Black History
• The bison question, tested on the record Wildlife
• Bissell and Economist — the two Farr works, attested, their fates still open Businesses
• Black doctors and nurses · practice inside segregated hospitals Black History
• The Black Hawk War · minute men, a stockade, and the "bloody three hundred" Wars, Unrest & Disasters
• Black History Section
• The Black population series, 1850–2020 Population
• The Black press of South Bend · The Reformer, and the papers that were not this city's Black History
• The Black press: the Forum, the Journal, the Herald-Times, and The Reformer Newspapers & Media
• Black South Bend's ground: the west-side geography Communities
• Black South Bend's leaders: the lawyers, the nurse, and the council presidents Notable People
• Black women's organizing: the Ruffin name, Hering House, and the clubs Women's History
• The Blackstone — The State Theatre Theaters
• The Blackstone-State Theater (1919–21) and Its Second Life Architecture
• Blake Wesley: Riley High School to the First Round Sports Players
• The Blizzard of 1978 · the winter that still measures all the others Wars, Unrest & Disasters
• The Blizzard of January 1978 · the city shovelled itself out Major Events
• The Blue Book ledger for St. Joseph County UFO Sightings
• The Blue Sox and Factors: Open Items Sports
• The Blue Sox stars, at one line each Sports
• The boat that graded a street by being dragged down it Strange but True
• Bodies for other men's electrics, then an electric of its own Studebaker
• The Boer War trial: Lord Roberts's report Exports
• The Bond-Built System: The Parks Since 1945 Parks & City Planning
• Bonnie Baker: The Face of the League Sports Players
• Bonnie Baker: The Face of the League South Bend Blue Sox
• The bookmobile Libraries
• The bookmobile the carmaker built Strange but True
• The boomtown mayors: Colfax's son and the eight-year man Government
• Booster cartography: the map as advertisement Historic Maps
• Born here, famous elsewhere: the screen Notable People
• The Born-Here Register: Fourteen Names Sports Players
• Boundaries — the works that are Mishawaka's Businesses
• The boundary at Atlanta: where the College Hall lives now Halls of Fame
• The boundary at Richmond: the Indiana Football Hall of Fame Halls of Fame
• The boundary that would not move: annexation and the counted effect Population
• The boundary: after 1929, an Oliver tractor is an Iowa tractor Tractors
• Bowling — the test, and what the record actually holds Sports
• Boxing — the Palais and the women pioneers Sports
• The Boy Scout Councils: St. Joseph Valley to LaSalle Charities
• The Boys & Girls Clubs: fifty years, by the club's own count Kids & Family Entertainment
• The brake maker and the cabinet maker: Bendix and Pine Notable People
• The brakes: Perrot's French patents, Adiel Dodge's duo-servo, and the NoRoL hill holder Inventors & Inventions
• Brandon Reed: the animator the platforms found at home Influencers & Digital Creators
• The Breezers Club Private Clubs
• The breweries, as businesses — a cross-reference Businesses
• The Bridges jackpot Lottery & Crypto
• Brit Prawat: the South Bend end of the line Influencers & Digital Creators
• Broadmoor Shopping Plaza: the first plaza Malls & Shopping
• Brown's Story of South Bend (1920) Sources
• The bucket town and the volunteer companies Fire & Public Safety
• The Buffalo Run Trails
• Building the Cove, 1984–1988 Sports
• Building the road: commissioners, scrip and the South Bend land sale Main Roads & Corridors
• The building's afterlife: the hotel that rose beside it Halls of Fame
• The building: 111 South St. Joseph Street Halls of Fame
• Bulla Bros.: the brothers on Michigan Street Photographers
• The burial ground Veterans
• Burlesque at the Blackstone: the season and the shutdown Comedy
• Businesses Section
• Businesses: Firms Not Found in the Record Businesses