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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.
Chicago and Illinois Midland Railway: C&IM, CIM 1906 1996 Illinois and Midland Railroad: Chicago and Illinois River Railroad: GM&O: 1867 1879 Chicago and Alton Railroad: Chicago and Illinois Southern Railroad: IC: 1877 Chicago and Illinois Southern Railroad: IC: 1871 1872 Chicago and Illinois Southern Railway: Chicago and Illinois Southern ...
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 .
This consolidated company, with a main line from Pekin to Granite City/Madison, and branches to Jacksonville and Grafton, continued to have financial problems, and the final company to bear the name, the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis Railroad, was incorporated in December 1909 and took over the property of the Chicago, Peoria and St. Louis ...
The depot was built by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad as the terminus of a major branch line that delivered significant goods and passengers to Peoria. The 1900 opening of the depot was attended by "throngs of populous;" at its height before the depression of the 1880s, Peoria was a transportation hub. [2]
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.
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.
The Prairie Marksman began on August 10, 1980, as a joint venture between Amtrak and the state of Illinois. [3] Eschewing the Rock Island route, the Prairie Marksman used the old GM&O line between Chicago and Chenoa, Illinois, and then traveled west over the Toledo, Peoria & Western to East Peoria.