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Marquette Apartments is a historic apartment building located at 701 Main Street in Peoria, Illinois.The building was built in 1924 to help meet the need for housing in downtown Peoria, as the number of downtown workers looking for housing near their jobs was growing rapidly.
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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 ...
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Peoria Heights is a village lying in Peoria County in the U.S. state of Illinois.The population was 6,156 at the 2010 census, down from 6,635 in 2000.Peoria Heights is a suburb of Peoria, is sometimes referred to as Uptown, and is surrounded by the city except for its eastern boundary on Peoria Lake, a relatively wider section of the Illinois River.
Peoria Lake was mentioned by the Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette expedition in 1674. During early European colonization, the lake was called Pimitéoui ("Fat Lake"). [4] [6] [10] [5] A French Fort on its banks was called Fort Pimitéoui (1691), later known as Old Fort Peoria. [6] [11] [8] The French remained in the Peoria area until about ...
Lake Chicago was a prehistoric proglacial lake that is the ancestor of what is now known as Lake Michigan, one of North America's five Great Lakes. Formed about 13,000 years ago and fed by retreating glaciers, it drained southwest through the Chicago Outlet River.