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1986 — the present
The cross-reference: The city's standing civic honor, the South Bend Community Hall of Fame, was begun in 1986 by the South Bend Alumni Association and elects those who lived and worked in South Bend for at least ten years; its plaques hang at Century Center, and its annual banquet reached its thirty-ninth edition on 13 October 2026. Because the halls of fame are a part of this history in their own right, the hall is carried whole there — its founding, its rules, and its roll at the size the record supports — in the Halls of Fame section. This ledger does not duplicate it; the entry here exists so the city's honors are complete in one place, with the direction to the full telling.
Sources:
- The Halls of Fame section of this history — the hall's founding in 1986, the Alumni Association, the ten-year rule, the Century Center plaques, the 2025 and 2026 banquets.