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23 unusual facts about Peoria


2005–06 St. Louis Blues season

Peoria Rivermen (AHL) - Peoria, Illinois Posted 46-26-0-8 Record, lost in 2nd round of playoffs

Annie Malone

Orphaned at a young age, Annie attended a public school in Metropolis before moving to Peoria to live with an older sister.

EMD LWT12

First one, EMD serial number 20826, entered service with the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad to pull the "Talgo Jet Rocket" train between Chicago and Peoria.

Gary Richrath

Gary Dean Richrath (born October 18, 1949 in Peoria, Illinois) is an American guitarist, best known as a member of the band REO Speedwagon from 1970 until 1989.

Illinois Route 116

Illinois 116 was a popular agricultural and commercial truck route from Burlington, Iowa (on the Mississippi River) to Peoria, Illinois (on the Illinois River) during World War II and through the late 1960s.

U.S. Route 124 (abbreviated US 124) was a U.S. Highway that was commissioned from 1926 to 1938, and was located in Illinois, running from Peoria through Biggsville.

Illinois Route 336

This route would also provide a faster route from Peoria to reach cities such as Kansas City and Denver.

The Peoria-to-Macomb corridor being studied (DOT Job No. P94-025-00 URS Job No. 25364560; July 7, 2003) closely parallels U.S. 136 to Marietta, and then Illinois Route 95 to Cuba, along Hickory Road to Canton, north on Illinois Route 78 to Farmington, then turning east along Illinois Route 116 to the Peoria area.

It is also used by Illinois DOT in FAP 315 to refer to a future project connecting the cities of Quincy and Peoria via underserved Macomb.

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

The earlier parts of the film were shot in Pryor's hometown of Peoria, Illinois.

Kingman High School

Kingman High School, a former high school in Peoria, Illinois, previously known as Averyville High School, and replaced by Woodruff High School (Peoria, Illinois) in 1937

Marmein Dancers

Irene, the eldest, was born on February 4, 1894 in Peoria, Illinois.

Mary Elizabeth Turner Salter

She was born in Peoria, Illinois, the daughter of Jonathan and Mary E. Hinds Turner.

Mudvayne discography

Formed in Peoria, Illinois, their discography consists of five studio albums, one live album, one compilation album, one EP, thirteen singles, two video albums, and seventeen music videos.

Peoria, Illinois City Council election, 2003

In Peoria, Illinois, each elector casts five votes in the At-Large elections.

The Peoria, Illinois City Council election of 2003 was held on April 1, 2003.

Peoria, Miami County, Indiana

Other area attractions include the Frances Slocum Burial Site and Cemetery (a Miami Indian shrine), the Chief Richardville home, the Peru Circus Hall of Fame, Cole Porter's family farm, the "Old Fashioned Garden" (popularized by Cole Porter) and Seven Pillars.

Pledge of Allegiance Tour: Live Concert Recording

The tracks were recorded live at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois on October 9, 2001, except the two Mudvayne tracks which were recorded live at the Madison Theater in Peoria, Illinois on June 14, 2001.

Schreder HP-15

In the April 2011 the sole HP-15 prototype, registered N5488, still existed and was privately registered in Peoria, Illinois.

Steve Vinovich

Vinovich was born in Peoria, Illinois, the son of Jennie J. (née Kuhel), a secretary, and Stephen J. Vinovich, an insurance salesman.

Talgo

Talgo II coaches and locomotives were first built in 1950 at the American Car and Foundry Company (ACF) works in the United States under the direction of Spanish engineers, and entered service on the Rock Island Line, servicing the Jet Rocket train, between Chicago and Peoria, Illinois.

ThermaHelm

Dr Henry Wang, a researcher at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, "lives in hope for a day when a pre-hospital cooling head cover will be available to those with head injury or stroke".

WCUA

WCUA-LP, a low-power radio station (101.9 FM) licensed to Peoria, Illinois, United States


Adlai Stevenson IV

Stevenson was a television reporter at WTNH, New Haven, WMBD, Peoria, KARE, Minneapolis and WMAQ, Chicago and media analyst for a newspaper chain.

Bart Shatto

After his family moved back to Peoria, he attended Bergan High School (now part of Peoria Notre Dame High School).

Carson's

In 1989, Carson Pirie Scott & Co. was acquired by P.A. Bergner & Co. (founded in Peoria, Illinois), who operated the Bergner's, Charles V. Weise, Myers Brothers and Boston Store chains.

Charles C. Bonney

He was schooled in Hamilton, and attended Colgate University, eventually receiving his LL.D. After a brief stint as a teacher in Hamilton, Bonney moved to Peoria, Illinois, where he founded a school.

Harry Bay

He later worked for the Peoria fire department and the Illinois Secretary of State.

After retiring from baseball in 1908, he returned to Peoria, became a bandleader at the local Apollo Theater, and toured the vaudeville circuit with Guy Kibbee.

Ironworkers Memorial Bridge

McClugage Bridge, a bridge across the Illinois River at Peoria, Illinois

J. J. Putz

He currently lives in Peoria, Arizona with his wife, Kelsey; twin daughters Lauren and Kaelyn, born in 2005; son Ethan, born in 2009; and daughter Addison, born in 2011.

Jack Billion

He was awarded his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1964 and began his internship and residency training at St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, Illinois.

Jerry Hayden

Hayden graduated from Woodruff High School in Peoria, Illinois in 1951.

Jesse Witten

He also reached two other finals at USTA Pro Circuit events in Peoria, Illinois and Lexington, Kentucky.

John Spalding

John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916), first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria (1877–1908)

KJRH-TV

KJRH maintains studios located in the Brookside district of midtown Tulsa (near East 37th Street and South Peoria Avenue), and its transmitter is located near South 273rd Avenue East and the Muskogee Turnpike (near Broken Arrow) in southeastern Tulsa County.

OSF Saint Francis Medical Center

The first hospital unit of what later became the Center was established in 1876 by a group of Franciscan Sisters who had been sent to Peoria, Illinois from a German expatriate group settled in Iowa City, Iowa.

Patrick O'Sullivan

On March 2, 2012, the Coyotes loaned O'Sullivan to the Peoria Rivermen of the AHL in exchange for Brett Sterling.

Peoria and Rock Island Railroad

While that section of the P & RI that stretches from Peoria north to Toulon, Illinois became a public trail in 1989, the northern section of the same right-of-way, between Toulon and Rock Island, was liquidated into the hands of adjacent landowners in the private sector.

Peoria Stadium

Peoria Sports Complex, Peoria, Arizona — a 1994 baseball stadium with practice fields

Philander Chase

After removing himself and his family to the Valley of Peace in central Ohio, Chase spent the final years of his life founding Jubilee College and the surrounding frontier community near present-day Peoria, Illinois, financed by arduous fund-raising journeys overseas.

Richwood High School

Richwoods High School in Peoria, Illinois and formerly in Richwoods Township, Peoria County, Illinois

Robert Dale Morgan

Under his tenure, Peoria was named by Look magazine as one of the nation's 11 All-America cities.

Senachwine

The Sons of the American Revolution chapter in Peoria, Illinois placed a bronze memorial plaque, engraved with his speech to Black Hawk pleading for peace prior to the Black Hawk War, at the supposed burial spot of Senachwine north of present-day Putnam County, Illinois on June 13, 1937.

Sorakichi Matsuda

Over the next few months he went on the road and wrestled in Cleveland, Baltimore, Buffalo, Rochester, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Chicago and Peoria.

Spalding High School

Spalding Institute, later Academy of Our Lady-Spalding Institute, now consolidated as Peoria Notre Dame High School in Peoria, Illinois

The Great Santini

Believing that the film's title - giving the perception that it was about circus stunts - would be the problem, it was tested as Sons and Heroes in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as Reaching Out in Rockford, Illinois, and The Ace in Peoria, Illinois.

The National Crittenton Foundation

The foundation is affiliated with 22 member agencies operating across the country in urban and rural areas, including Baltimore; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Knoxville, Tennessee; Orange County, California and Los Angeles, California; Peoria, Illinois; Philadelphia; Phoenix, Arizona, San Francisco, California; Sioux City, Iowa; Washington, D.C. and Wheeling, West Virginia.

The Pale King

Many of the chapters relate the experiences of a handful of employees of the Internal Revenue Service in Peoria, Illinois in 1985.

WMBD

WMBD-TV, a television station (channel 30 digital/31 virtual) licensed to Peoria, Illinois, United States

WTVP

Permanent seats were reserved by its original charter for one voting representative from each of the following institutions: Bradley University, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria Public Schools, Peoria Public Library, Pekin Public Schools, and Illinois Central College.