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The West Bluff Historic District is one of three Registered Historic Districts in the Peoria County, Illinois, city of Peoria.The district is mostly residential and is an example of the opulence once enjoyed by the upper class in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
While Peoria was platted in the 1820s, the oldest buildings in the district date from 1867, shortly before Peoria's economic boom of the 1870s. In the late nineteenth century, Peoria's whiskey industry was among the largest in the world, and many downtown civic improvements and public buildings were funded by whiskey profits. By the turn of the ...
the Peoria Diocese buildings of the former high schools Spalding Institute and Academy of Our Lady, and adjacent offices and convent in the 400 NE block of Madison St. and 400/500 blocks of Bryan St.; American Legion Post #2 at 406 NE Monroe St. [2] (torn down by the Diocese in the late 2000s); [citation needed] and
Peoria City Hall [7] 419 Fulton Street 1895-1898 February 1991 February 6, 1973 Peoria Mineral Springs and Residence [5] 701 W Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Drive c. 1843 June 1994 March 5, 1982 Peoria Women’s Club [7] 301 NE Madison Avenue 1893 April 2013 N/A Pettengill-Morron House [5] 1212 W Moss Avenue 1868 December 2021 April 2, 1976 ...
The annual Peoria Community Christmas Sing will take place at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12, in the lobby of the Peoria Riverfront Museum, 222 SW Washington St. Admission is free and all are welcome ...
Peoria (/ p i ˈ ɔːr i ə / pee-OR-ee-ə) is a city in and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States. [4] Located on the Illinois River, the city had a population of 113,150 as of the 2020 census, making it the eighth-most populous city in Illinois.
Playing in Peoria: When Jimmy Buffett helped bring streaking to central Illinois On the outbreak's one-year anniversary, the Journal Star began a five-part, front-page series on the incident and ...
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