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Wildlife Prairie Park, also known as the Hazel & Bill Rutherford Wildlife Prairie Park, is located in Peoria County, Illinois, approximately 10 miles (16 km) west of downtown Peoria in central Illinois. Opened in the 1970s, it has most recently been operated as a not-for-profit corporation since 2013.
Illinois Caverns State Natural Area: Monroe: 120 0.49 1985: None: 9.6 km of the park are passages underground. Mitchell's Grove Nature Preserve: LaSalle: 184 0.74 1997: Little Vermilion River (Illinois River tributary) Piney Creek Ravine State Natural Area: Jackson, Randolph: 198 0.80 1972: Piney Creek: Prairie Ridge State Natural Area: Jasper ...
The Forest Park Nature Center is a staffed nature center in Peoria Heights, a suburb of Peoria, Illinois.The nature center and surrounding parkland is operated by the Peoria Park District to interpret and celebrate the elevational bluffs and oak savannahs of the Peoria Lake watershed, which in CE 1492 was one of the most fertile and productive ecosystems known to humankind.
The site is on the south side of Farm Creek (a tributary of the Illinois River) in the Farm Creek Recreation Area, south of Illinois Route 8 (Washington St.) and between School Street and Bittersweet Road, and is accessible by following an unpaved road, part of which is an abandoned right of way formerly in use by the Toledo, Peoria and Western ...
Location of Peoria County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Peoria County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Peoria County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
This Journal Star file photo from August 1983 shows the Skewer Inn in happier times. The caption reads "MDA poster child Sammy Miller of Bloomington enlisted the $100 support of Skewer Inn co ...
The Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge is located on the Illinois River in Mason County northeast of Havana, Illinois. It is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as one of the four Illinois River National Wildlife and Fish Refuges. The refuge consists of 4,388 acres (17.76 km 2) of Illinois River bottomland, nearly all of it wetland.
East Peoria: 78.5: 126.3: Edmund Street: Interchange: 79.0: 127.1: US 24 west / IL 29 south / Illinois River Road south – Quincy, Pekin, Springfield: Interchange; west end of US 24 / IL 29 / Illinois River Road overlap: 79.7: 128.3: US 150 east / IL 8 east (Camp Street) – Bloomington-Normal, Washington: West end of US 150 overlap; east end ...