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Musicians from Peoria, Illinois (21 P) This page was last edited on 5 February 2025, at 18:31 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Peoria is the oldest European settlement in Illinois, as explorers first ventured up the Illinois River from the Mississippi. The lands that eventually would become Peoria were first settled by Europeans in 1680, when French explorers René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henri de Tonti constructed Fort Crevecoeur. [7]
In the group of original North American area codes, established in 1947, all of the Chicago metropolitan area was part of numbering plan area 312, the rest of northern Illinois was 815, central Illinois was 217, and southern Illinois was 618. In 1957, area code 815 was split for the assignment of area code 309 to western central Illinois.
PPU 2000 at Peoria, IL. The Tazewell & Peoria Railroad (T&P) (reporting mark TZPR) (November 1, 2004—present) is a short-line railroad, running entirely in Peoria County and Tazewell County, Illinois, and formed by Genesee & Wyoming Inc. to lease the assets of the century-old Peoria and Pekin Union Railway (P&PU), which is owned by Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern and Canadian National.
The Chicago, Ottawa and Peoria Railway, or CO&P, was an electric interurban railway running along the Illinois River Valley between Joliet and Princeton. It was one of the longest lines in the state and was unique as an isolated section of the Illinois Traction System .
R&B star Chris Brown autographed a bowling pin at Landmark Lanes for bowling general manager Vince Pollard during Brown's surprise visit in Peoria on Saturday, June 1, 2024.
Finally, in March 1900, the Bluff Line was merged into the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railway of Illinois, a reorganization of the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad of Illinois, and at the same time the Litchfield-Madison line was split off as a new Litchfield and Madison Railway, which the CP&StL continued to operate under lease until ...
Jefferson R. Boulware, Illinois state representative and lawyer [4] Robert L. Burhans, Illinois state legislator and lawyer [5] John Edward Cassidy, Illinois Attorney General; Mark Clark, Black Panther; killed in infamous Chicago police raid in 1969; Joseph E. Daily, Chief Justice of Illinois Supreme Court; William L. Eagleton, US diplomat