13 Facts About Peoria Illinois

Major port on the Illinois River, Peoria is a trading and shipping center for a large agricultural area that produces corn, soybeans, and livestock.

Until 2018, Peoria was the global and national headquarters for heavy equipment and engine manufacturer Caterpillar Inc, one of the 30 companies composing the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and listed on the Fortune 100; in the latter year, the company relocated its headquarters to Deerfield, Illinois.

The lands that eventually would become Peoria Illinois were first settled by Europeans in 1680, when French explorers Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henri de Tonti constructed Fort Crevecoeur.

Peoria Illinois has a humid continental climate, with cold, snowy winters, and hot, humid summers.

City of Peoria Illinois is home to a United States courthouse and the Peoria Illinois Civic Center .

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Peoria Illinois has five public golf courses as well as several private and semi-private golf courses.

Museums in Peoria Illinois include the Pettengill-Morron House, the John C Flanagan House of the Peoria Illinois Historical Society, and the Wheels o' Time Museum.

Peoria Illinois is the 153rd largest radio market in the United States and Peoria Illinois-Bloomington is the 117th largest television market in the United States.

NOAA Weather Radio station WXJ71 transmits from East Peoria and is licensed to NOAA's National Weather Service Central Illinois Weather Forecast Office at Lincoln, broadcasting on a frequency of 162.

Many other industries started slowly in Peoria Illinois including carriage factories, pottery makers, wholesale warehousing, casting foundries, glucose factories, ice harvesting, and furniture makers.

Township of the City of Peoria Illinois is a separate government from the City of Peoria Illinois, and performs the functions of civil township government in most of the city.

Peoria Illinois area is served by three Interstate highways: Interstate 74, which runs from northwest to southeast through the downtown area, Interstate 474, a southern bypass of I-74 through portions of Peoria Illinois and the suburbs of Bartonville and Creve Coeur, and Interstate 155, which runs south from I-74 in Morton to Interstate 55 in Lincoln which connects to Springfield and St Louis.

Peoria Illinois was a minor passenger rail hub until the 1950s.