Peoria, Illinois Peoria, Illinois Peoria City Peoria City Hall County Peoria - locale Peoria City Hall Location of Peoria in Illinois Peoria (/pi ri /, pee-or-ee-uh) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Peoria County, Illinois, United States, and the biggest city on the Illinois River.
Established in 1691 by the French explorer Henri de Tonti, Peoria is the earliest European settlement in Illinois, and is titled after the Peoria tribe.
As of the 2010 census, the town/city was the seventh-most populated in Illinois (and the third biggest outside of the Chicago urbane area), with a populace of 115,007. The Peoria Metropolitan Travel Destination had a populace of 373,590 in 2011.
Peoria had a populace of 118,943 in 2010, when far northern Peoria was also included.
Peoria is the global and nationwide headquarters for Caterpillar Inc., one of the 30 companies composing the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and listed on the Fortune 100.
8.1 Township of the City of Peoria Main article: History of Peoria, Illinois Peoria is one of the earliest settlements in Illinois, as explorers first ventured up the Illinois River from the Mississippi.
The lands that eventually would turn into Peoria were first settled in 1680, when French explorers Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henri de Tonti constructed Fort Crevecoeur. This fort would later burn to the ground, and in 1813 Fort Clark, Illinois was built.
When the County of Peoria was organized in 1825, Fort Clark was officially titled Peoria. Peoria was titled after the Peoria tribe, a member of the Illinois Confederation.
Peoria, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, was titled after Peoria, Illinois because the two men who established it in 1890 Joseph B.
According to the 2010 census, Peoria has a total region of 50.23 square miles (130.10 km2), of which 48.01 square miles (124.35 km2) (or 95.58%) is territory and 2.22 square miles (5.75 km2) (or 4.42%) is water. Peoria is bounded on the east by the Illinois River except for the enclave of Peoria Heights, which also borders the river.
Four bridges run directly between the town/city and neighboring East Peoria.
On the south end of Peoria's border are Bartonville and the newly established town/city of West Peoria.
Climate data for Peoria, Illinois (Peoria Int'l), 1981 2010 normals Panorama of downtown Peoria, viewed from athwart the Illinois River in East Peoria.
Peoria's downtown region includes corporate, governmental, convention, educational, and medical facilities.
It is also home to the Peoria Civic Center, Theatres, and Dozer Park, as well as an arts, dining, and entertainment region near the riverfront.
The town/city of Peoria is home to a United States courthouse, the Peoria Civic Center (which includes Carver Arena), and the world command posts for Caterpillar Inc.
Was based in Peoria for over 110 years until announcing their move to Deerfield, IL in late 2017. Medicine has turn into a primary part of Peoria's economy.
In addition to three primary hospitals, the USDA's National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, formerly called the USDA Northern Regional Research Lab, is positioned in Peoria.
Grandview Drive, which Theodore Roosevelt purportedly called the "world's most beautiful drive" amid a 1910 visit, runs through Peoria and Peoria Heights.
In addition to Grandview Drive, the Peoria Park District boasts 9,000 acres (36 km2) of parks and trails.
In particular, the Illinois River Bluff Trail joins four Peoria Park District parks: Camp Wokanda, Robinson Park, Green Valley Camp, and Detweiller Park, and the Rock Island Greenway (13 miles) joins to the State of Illinois Rock Island trail traveling north to Toulon, IL and also joins southeast to East Peoria, IL and to the Morton Community Bikeway.
The Peoria Park District, the first and still biggest park precinct in Illinois, was the 2001 Winner of the National Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Parks and Recreation for Class II Parks. Museums in Peoria include the Pettengill-Morron House, the John C Flanagan House of the Peoria Historical Society, and the Wheels o' Time Museum.
A new Museum Square, opened on October 12, 2012, homes the Peoria Riverfront Museum, a planetarium, and the Caterpillar World Visitors Center. The Peoria Zoo, formerly Glen Oak Zoo, was period and refurbished in recent years.
The Peoria Santa Claus Parade, which started in 1888, is the earliest running holiday parade in the United States. Peoria's sister metros/cities include Friedrichshafen, Germany; Benxi, China; Clonmel, Ireland; and Aitou, Lebanon. Peoria Symphony Orchestra is the 10th earliest in the nation.
Peoria is also home to the Peoria Municipal Band, the Peoria Area Civic Chorale, the Central Illinois Youth Symphony, and the Peoria Ballet.
Several improve and experienced theaters have their home in and around Peoria, including the Peoria Players, which is the fourth-oldest improve theater in the country and the earliest in Illinois. Corn Stock Theatre is another improve theater business in Peoria, and is the only outside theater business in Central Illinois. Peoria has hosted the Heart of Illinois Fair every year since 1949.
View of Peoria Civic Center, Peoria City Hall, and Peoria's Twin Towers Peoria City Hall Peoria Cordage Company Peoria Chiefs Midwest League Baseball Dozer Park 1983 1 (2002) Peoria Rivermen Southern Professional Hockey League Ice Hockey Carver Arena 2013 0 Peoria Push Roller Derby WFTDA Apprentice League Roller Derby Expo Gardens 2010 0 Main article: Media in Peoria, Illinois Peoria is the 153rd biggest radio market in the United States and Peoria-Bloomington is the 117th biggest tv market in the United States. The region has 14 commercial airways broadcasts with six owners among them; four non-commercial full-power airways broadcasts, each separately owned; five commercial tv stations with two operating owners among them; one non-commercial tv station; and one daily journal (Peoria Journal Star).
NOAA Weather Radio station WXJ71 transmits from East Peoria and is licensed to NOAA's National Weather Service Central Illinois Weather Forecast Office at Lincoln, transmitting on a recurrence of 162.475 m - Hz (channel 4 on most newer weather radios, and most SAME weather radios).
The station activates the SAME tone alarm feature and a 1050 Hz tone activating older radios (except for AMBER Alerts, using the SAME feature only) for hazardous weather and non-weather warnings and emergencies, along with chose weather watches, for the Illinois counties of Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Mason, Mc - Lean, Peoria, Putnam, Stark, Tazewell, and Woodford.
Main article: Peoria Civic Center The Peoria Civic Center includes an arena, meeting hall, and theater, and was instead of in the early 1980s, was designed by the famed late architect Philip Johnson.
It is now a full-service Marriott Hotel with a skyway linking to the Peoria Civic Center.
Renaissance Park was originally designated as a research park, originally established in May 2003 as the Peoria Medical and Technology District.
The Peoria NEXT Innovation Center opened in August 2007 and provides both dry and wet labs, as well as conference and office space for emerging start-up companies.
Over $2 billion in research is conducted in Peoria annually. While the Renaissance Park research park universal never came to full fruition, many of the initial ideas from the initial Renaissance Park concept still continue on a lesser level via The Renaissance Park Community Association. The Block is a $100+ million universal that contains the Peoria Riverfront Museum and The Caterpillar Experience, a exhibition and visitor's center highlighting Caterpillar past, present, and future.
It is positioned in downtown Peoria along the Illinois River at the site formerly known as the Sears Block.
Many other industries started slowly in Peoria including carriage factories, pottery manufacturers, wholesale warehousing, casting foundries, glucose factories, ice harvesting, and furniture manufacturers.
Peoria became the first world prestige for distilleries thanks to Andrew Eitle (1837) and Almiron S.
Peoria also was one of the primary bootlegging areas amid the prohibition and home to the famed mobsters, the Shelton brothers.
This great success placed Peoria into a building boom of beautiful private homes, schools, parks, churches, as well as municipal buildings.
The dominant manufacturing companies in Peoria were Kingman Plow Co., Acme Harvester Co., Selby, Starr & Co., and Avery Manufacturing Co.
At this time, agricultural implement manufacturing declined, which led the earth moving and tractor equipment companies to skyrocket and make Peoria in this field the world leader.
Unity - Point Health (owns three hospitals in the area, 2 in Peoria) According to Peoria's 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 5 Peoria Public Schools District 150 1,500+ 9 Peoria County 1,000 1,500 14 City of Peoria 500-1,000 The urbane region has a populace of 370,000, which includes Peoria, Tazewell, Woodford, Stark and Marshall counties.
Suburbs and suburbs in this region include Bartonville, Bellevue, Creve Coeur, Dunlap, East Peoria, Germantown Hills, Groveland, Marquette Heights, Metamora, Morton, North Pekin, Norwood, Pekin, Peoria Heights, Pottstown, Rome, Tremont, Washington, and West Peoria. Peoria is a home rule municipality with a mayor and ten town/city council members.
Outline of the Township of the City of Peoria in Peoria County The Township of the City of Peoria (sometimes called City of Peoria Township) is a separate government from the City of Peoria, and performs the functions of civil township government in most of the city.
The border of the township matched the Peoria town/city limits until 1991, when it was frozen at its current boundaries; the City of Peoria itself has continued expanding outside of the City of Peoria Township borders into Kickapoo, Medina, Radnor Townships.
In the years before the freeze, the Township of the City of Peoria had grown to take up most of the former region of Richwoods and what is now West Peoria Township.
Peoria is served by four enhance K-12 school districts: Peoria Public Schools District 150 is the biggest and serves the majority of the city.
District 150 schools include dozens of major and middle schools, as well as three enhance high schools: Richwoods High School, which hosts the competing International Baccalaureate Program of study; Manual High School; and Peoria High School (Central), the earliest high school in Illinois. Until the end of the 2009 2010 school year, a fourth high school, Woodruff High School, closed.
Peoria District 150 is also served by Quest Charter Academy, a STEM concentrated school serving grades 5-12.
Dunlap Community Unit School District 323 serves the far north and northwest parts of Peoria that were mostly outside the town/city before the 1990s.
Limestone Community School District 310 serves a small portion of the edge of the City of Peoria (western edges of Wardcliffe and Lexington Hills areas), but mainly serves the suburbs of Bartonville, Bellevue and encircling towns.
Peoria Heights School District 325 serves the suburb of Peoria Heights; however, parts of the City of Peoria immediately outside the Heights are in this school district.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria runs six schools in the city: five undertaking schools and Peoria Notre Dame High School.
Non-denominational Peoria Christian School operates a undertaking school, middle school, and high school.
In addition, Concordia Lutheran School, Peoria Academy, Christ Lutheran School, and a several smaller private schools exist. Francis College of Nursing, the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, the Downtown and North campuses of Illinois Central College, and the Peoria ground of Robert Morris University are based in the city.
Additionally, Eureka College and the chief campus of Illinois Central College are positioned nearby in Eureka and East Peoria, in the order given.
The health-care trade accounts for at least 25% of Peoria's economy. The town/city has three primary hospitals: OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Unity - Point Health Methodist, and Unity - Point Health Proctor.
In addition, the Children's Hospital of Illinois, the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, and the Midwest Affiliate of St.
The Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation was created from the "Peoria Plan for Human Rehabilitation," a model for medical and occupational rehabilitation launched in 1943 to integrate returning World War II veterans back into the workplace.
See also: Bridges in Peoria, Illinois and Peoria-to-Chicago Highway The twin steel truss bridges known as Mc - Clugage Bridge, spanning the Illinois River at Peoria The Peoria region is served by three Interstate highways: Interstate 74, which runs from northwest to southeast through the downtown area, Interstate 474, a southern bypass of I-74 through portions of Peoria and the suburbs of Bartonville and Creve Coeur, and Interstate 155, which runs south from I-74 in Morton to Interstate 55 in Lincoln which joins to Springfield and St.
Route 150 serves as the chief arterial for the northern portion of the Peoria area, becoming War Memorial Drive before heading west towards Kickapoo.
The following state routes run through Peoria: It enters Peoria from Elmwood and runs southeast through the city, passing just southwest of the downtown area.
Illinois 8 crosses into East Peoria via the Cedar Street Bridge with 116.
Illinois Route 29 runs through Peoria along the Illinois River from Chillicothe through downtown Peoria.
Illinois Route 40 (formerly 88) enters Peoria from the north as Knoxville Avenue.
Illinois Route 91 briefly enters Peoria at the intersection with U.S.
It runs directly east and crosses into East Peoria over the Cedar Street Bridge.
The prepared Illinois Route 336 universal will also connect Illinois 336 with I-474 between Illinois 8 and Illinois 116.
Metro Peoria is served by ten common carrier barns s.
The last one, Union Pacific, has a north-south oriented line which skirts the west edge of the town/city but a line chapters off of it to enter Peoria.
Five Class III/Shortline barns s: Central Illinois Railroad, which operates a portion of the city-owned Peoria, Peoria Heights and Western Railroad; three Genesee and Wyoming-owned operations: Toledo, Peoria and Western Railway, which runs next to US 24 east to Logansport, Indiana (formally owned by Rail America), Illinois & Midland Railroad (the former Chicago and Illinois Midland, comes up from Springfield and Havana) and Tazewell and Peoria Railroad (leases the Peoria and Pekin Union Railway from its owners Canadian National, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific); Pioneer Railcorp's Keokuk Junction Railway (which now owns the Toledo, Peoria and Western's West End from Lomax and La Harpe in Western Illinois, plus the branch from Keokuk); There is no passenger rail connecting Peoria to other urban centers, although this possibility and the possibility of rail service that joins St.
Louis to Chicago (by way of Springfield, Peoria, Bloomington-Normal, and Pontiac) has been and is being investigated. Peoria's last intercity rail service ended in 1981, when Amtrak withdrew the Prairie Marksman, which stopped in close-by East Peoria.
Public bus service is provided by the Greater Peoria Mass Transit District, which operates 21 bus routes under the name City - Link, that serve the city, Illinois Central College and much of East Peoria, Illinois, Peoria Heights, West Peoria, and points between Peoria and Pekin. The General Wayne Downing Peoria International Airport serves Peoria and encircling communities.
Paul, Detroit, Houston, Phoenix, and Charlotte. Cargo carriers serving Peoria include UPS and Airborne Express (now DHL).
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Grandview Drive along the Illinois River bluff in Peoria and Peoria Heights Spirit of Peoria paddle wheel riverboat Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception (Peoria, Illinois) (also known as St.
Peoria Riverfront Museum and Caterpillar Visitor Center along the downtown waterfront Main article: List of citizens from Peoria, Illinois September 19 to October 21, 1813 Peoria War 1844 Abraham Lincoln came to Peoria to get involved in the Aquilla Wren divorce case and took it to the Supreme Court of Illinois April 15, 1926 Charles Lindbergh's first air mail route, Contract Air Mail route #2, began running mail from Chicago to Peoria to Springfield to St.
1942 Penicillium chrysogenum, the fungus originally used to industrially produce penicillin, was first isolated from a mouldy cantaloupe found in a grocery store in Peoria.
April 3, 1967 The trial of mass murderer Richard Speck begins at the Peoria County courthouse, after a change of venue from Chicago to ensure a fair trial.
Theodore Roosevelt called Grandview Drive, a street on the bluffs overlooking the Illinois River "the world's most beautiful drive." The Peoria airways broadcast and CBS tv affiliate WMBD attached the description to its call sign. October 5, 1984 Michael Jordan made his first appearance as a experienced player (Chicago Bulls), in Peoria, in a preseason game against the Indiana Pacers.
Peoria has been awarded the All-America City Award four times (1953, 1966, 1989 and 2013).
In 2007, Forbes ranked Peoria #47 out of the biggest 150 urbane areas in its annual "Best Places for Business and Careers." In 2005, Bert Sperling and Peter Sanders' "Best Places to Live Rankings" among 331 urbane areas placed Peoria #51, citing "low cost of living, low cost of housing, and attractive residentiary areas" as the chief pros to the area. Peoria was ranked a 5 Star Logistics City by Expansion Management Magazine in 2007 Peoria persistently rates in the Top 10 Best Mannered Cities in America as compiled by etiquette expert Marjabelle Young Stewart. Peoria was ranked as one of the "50 Next Great Adventure Towns" in the US in the September 2008 copy of National Geographic Adventure magazine.
In 2009, Peoria was ranked 16th best town/city with a populace of 100,000 200,000 ("Mighty Micros") in the U.S.
In 2009, Peoria was ranked #5 best mid-sized town/city to launch a small company by CNN Money and Fortune Small Business. Milken Institute released its Best Performing Metropolitan Areas listing for 2008 and the Peoria Area ranked #33 among the top 200 biggest urbane areas in the country.
Peoria in prominent culture The infamous of Peoria as the archetypal example of middle American culture runs throughout American culture, appearing in movies and books, on tv and radio, and in countless advertisements as either a filler place name, the representative of mainstream taste, hence the phrase "Will it play in Peoria?". Peoria is usually used in a complimentary and positive fashion in advertising; in contrast, most fictional allusions are an obvious affront and literary usage often implies that "Peoria" is equivalent to "provincial".
In the Season Two episode, "Motel," of The Bob Newhart Show, Jerry convinces Bob to drive to Peoria and stay in a hotel over the weekend in order to watch a game that is blacked out in Chicago.
Was blunt about Peoria's reputation: A girl asks at Peter's Drug Store, "I want the most exotic perfume you got": "That would be 'Evening in Paris, Champs-Elysees' sixty dollars an ounce"; "What do you have for three bucks?"; "'Midnight in Peoria, Route 24, Junction Eight'"! In Emma Lathen's When in Greece: "Charlie's responsibilities took him far too often to places he preferred leaving to vacationing college students or retired Peoria car dealers." Peoria is incessantly referenced in the old-time radio comedy Fibber Mc - Gee and Molly, inasmuch as their stars, Jim and Marian Jordan, were originally from Peoria themselves.
This portrayal of Peoria isn't historical; rather, Peoria is more metaphorical.
The character Anthony Di - Nozzo in NCIS stated that he previously worked for three different police departments before to joining the agency, one of which was in Peoria.
The 1929 Best Picture winner, The Broadway Melody ends with Hank and her singing partner traveling to Peoria to break in their act with the goal of returning to Broadway in the fall.
66 states that the character Shawn interval up in Peoria.
Burroughs mentions Peoria in his books Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Nova Express, and Interzone.
In Sufjan Stevens' album Illinois, Peoria is the subject of the song titled "Prairie Fire That Wanders About." Stevens makes reference to multiple figures in Peoria's history, including Lydia Moss Bradley, and also speaks of Peoria's Santa Claus parade, the longest running in the nation.
"Peoria" by King Crimson was recorded at The Barn in Peoria in March 10, 1972, encompassed in the live album Earthbound.
In 1977, the news periodical Time used Peoria as a form of "et cetera" (and perhaps a hidden insult) in an article on the proliferation of new vineyards in America, calling them "the new Chateaux Peorias...." List of places titled Peoria "29 ZIP Code Results for listing Peoria, IL a "Primary city"".
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