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Nowland's pork planting industry. Many other industries started slowly in Peoria including carriage factories, pottery makers, wholesale warehousing, casting foundries, glucose factories, ice harvesting, and furniture makers.
Peoria became the first world leader for distilleries thanks to Andrew Eitle and Almiron S. Cole Together, they produced the highest amount of internal revenue tax on alcohol of any single revenue district in the entire U. Peoria also was one of the major bootlegging areas during Prohibition and home to the famed mobsters, the Shelton brothers. This great success placed Peoria into a building boom of beautiful private homes, schools, parks, churches, as well as municipal buildings.
In addition to the distilleries came farm machinery manufacturing by William Nurse in Also, two men called Toby and Anderson brought the steel plow circa , which gained immediate success. The dominant manufacturing companies in Peoria were Kingman Plow Co. Around the s, businesses such as Rouse Hazard Co. Charles Duryea , one of the cycle manufacturers, developed the first commercially available gasoline-powered automobile in the U. At this time, agricultural implement production declined, which led the earth moving and tractor equipment companies to skyrocket and make Peoria in this field the world leader.
In , Caterpillar Tractor Co. Best Tractor Co. Robert G. LeTourneau 's earth moving company began its production of new scrapers and dozers in which evolved into Komatsu-Dresser, Haulpak Division. The entity that remains is the off-highway truck manufacturing division for Komatsu America Corporation. The city's largest mall is Northwoods Mall.
According to Peoria's Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, [57] the top employers in the city are:.
As of the census [59] of , there were , people and 47, households residing in the city. The population density was 2, There were 52, housing units. The racial makeup of the city was Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4. The city has a sizable, established Lebanese population with a long history in local business and government.
There were 45, households, out of which Individuals made up The average household size was 2. The city population was The median age was 34 years. For every females, there were For every females age 18 and over, there were Some Special censuses were conducted in and that noted a total increase of 8, in the city's population since the census.
Peoria is a home rule municipality with a mayor and ten city council members.
It has a council-manager form of government. The city is divided into five districts. Five council members are elected at-large via cumulative voting. The Township of the City of Peoria sometimes called City of Peoria Township is a separate government from the City of Peoria, and performs the functions of civil township government in most of the city.
In the years before the freeze, the Township of the City of Peoria had grown to take up most of the former area of Richwoods and what is now West Peoria Township. Peoria is served by four public K school districts:. Non-denominational Peoria Christian School operates a grade school, middle school, and high school. Jude Children's Research Hospital are located in the city. The hospitals are all located in a medical district around the junction of Interstate 74 and Knoxville Avenue , adjacent to downtown in the southeast of the city, except for UnityPoint Health — Proctor in the geographic center of the city.
The Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation was created from the "Peoria Plan for Human Rehabilitation," a model for medical and occupational rehabilitation launched in to integrate returning World War II veterans back into the workplace. The Peoria area is served by three Interstate highways : Interstate 74 , which runs from northwest to southeast through the downtown area, Interstate , a southern bypass of I through portions of Peoria and the suburbs of Bartonville and Creve Coeur , and Interstate , which runs south from I in Morton to Interstate 55 in Lincoln which connects to Springfield and St.
The nearest metropolitan centers accessible on I are the Quad Cities to the west, and Bloomington-Normal to the east. From to , Interstate 74 between Interstate on the west and Illinois Route 8 on the east was reconstructed as part of the Upgrade 74 project. In addition, U. Route serves as the main arterial for the northern portion of the Peoria area, becoming War Memorial Drive before heading west towards Kickapoo. It enters from the McClugage Bridge ; east of the bridge, U. Construction on the segment nearest Peoria has not started, nor has funding been allocated.
Metro Peoria is served by ten common carrier railroads. The last one, Union Pacific, has a north—south oriented line which skirts the west edge of the city but a line branches off of it to enter Peoria. There is no passenger rail connecting Peoria to other urban centers, although this possibility and the possibility of rail service that connects St. Peoria was a minor passenger rail hub until the s.
Several Midwestern railroads fed into Peoria Union Station until The area's last intercity rail service ended in , when Amtrak withdrew the Prairie Marksman Chicago-East Peoria , which stopped in nearby East Peoria. The nearest Amtrak rail service is at Galesburg to the northwest and Bloomington to the southeast. The airport is served by 4 passenger airlines United , American , Delta , and Allegiant Air and numerous cargo carriers. Paul, Detroit, Houston, Phoenix, and Charlotte.
Mount Hawley Auxiliary Airport , on the north end of the city, also accepts general aviation. The theme of Peoria as the archetypal example of middle American culture runs throughout American culture, appearing in movies and books, on television and radio, and in countless advertisements as either a filler place name, the representative of mainstream taste, hence the phrase " Will it play in Peoria?
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