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Peoria Civic Center is an entertainment complex located in downtown Peoria, Illinois. Designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Philip Johnson [3] and John Burgee, [4] it has an arena, theater, exhibit hall and meeting rooms. [5] It opened in 1982 [6] and completed an expansion to its lobby and meeting facilities in 2007. [7]
The City of Peoria's Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) approves new historic districts and landmarks and ensures historic site maintain their character. [1] Peoria's Historic Preservation Ordinance was adopted by the City Council in 1976 and amended in 1989. [1] The Historic Preservation Commission was authorized by Section 16-36. [1]
Dewberry (architecture firm), an American architecture and engineering firm that contributed to building General Wayne A. Downing Peoria International Airport Dewberry (Beaverdam, Virginia) , a building on the National Register of Historic Places
The Peoria Riverfront Museum is a non-profit multidisciplinary museum of art, science, history, and achievement that promotes itself as the only museum of its kind in the United States. It is located on the Illinois river in downtown Peoria, Illinois. Representing a unique private/public partnership, the museum is privately funded by donors and ...
Rubus flagellaris, the northern dewberry, [2] also known as the common dewberry, [3] is a North American species perennial subshrub species of dewberry, in the rose family. This dewberry is distributed across much of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. [2] It grows in diverse habitats ranging from drier savannas to temperate deciduous forests.
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 ...
[3] [12] [6] The new terminal, designed by Reynolds, Smith & Hills of Jacksonville, Florida and the Dewberry architecture firm of Peoria, and built by Turner Construction, opened on April 27, 2011. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] As of August 24, 2012, the airport was in negotiations for international flights using a temporary customs facility.
The National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research (NCAUR) (sometimes still called the Northern Lab; known locally as the Ag Lab) is a United States Department of Agriculture laboratory center in Peoria, Illinois. The Center researches new industrial and food uses for agricultural commodities, develops new technology to improve ...