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    Upper Peoria Lake is a section of the Illinois River primarily between Peoria County and Woodford County, Illinois, United States. The lake runs from...
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    Peoria Lake, sometimes called Lower Peoria Lake, is a section of the Illinois River between Peoria in Peoria County, Illinois and East Peoria in Tazewell...
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    That most of the village is water is due to the fact that most of Upper Peoria Lake lies within its boundaries; this can be seen on official state maps...
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    The McClugage Bridge carries U.S. Route 150 over Upper Peoria Lake & Peoria Lake in the Illinois River in the US state of Illinois. The bridge's official...
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    Peoria (/piˈɔːriə/ pee-OR-ee-ə) is a city in and county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States. Located on the Illinois River, the city had a population...
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    United States. Most of this protected area is over the Goose Lake and Upper Peoria Lake sections of the Illinois River. The Woodford SFWA has 2,462 acres...
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    Illinois). Thus, Vincennes and Peoria were near the limit of Louisiana's reach; the outposts at Ouiatenon (on the upper Wabash near present-day Lafayette...
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  • 44694 Tower Lakes Timberlake, Barrington, Lake County, Illinois Upper Peoria Lake Valley Lake (Illinois), Lake County. 42°20′57″N 87°58′58″W / 42.34917°N...
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    Beach Lake Plain (shared with Wisconsin) The Emiquon Complex (including Emiquon National Wildlife Refuge) Sue and Wes Dixon Waterfowl Refuge The Upper Mississippi...
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    River and went to investigate. They were enthusiastically greeted by the Peoria who lived nearby in three small villages. Marquette and the others were...
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  • Town Ralston Winter Park East Peoria Peoria Heights West Peoria Abington Cheltenham Chester Haverford Lower Merion Upper Darby Camden Cherry Hill Collingswood...
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    Illinois River (category Rivers of Peoria County, Illinois)
    to central Illinois. Along its shores are several river ports, including Peoria, Illinois. Historic and recreation areas on the river include Starved Rock...
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    (First printed in Bulletin of the Peoria Scientific Association. 87 (1887): 77–87.) Wetzel, Robert (2001). Limnology: Lake and river ecosystems. San Diego:...
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    Algonquian peoples (category Great Lakes tribes)
    Peoria (Illiniwek), formerly Illinois now Oklahoma Menominee (kāēyas-mamāceqtaw) of Wisconsin, Upper Michigan, United States Anishinaabe, Great Lakes...
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    the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria, Illinois where it is on display. The Upper Bluff Lake plates are two plates found at the Saddle Site...
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    bellwether in American culture, exemplified by the phrase Will it play in Peoria?. "Illinois" is the modern spelling for the early French Catholic missionaries...
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    Kaskaskia (category Peoria tribe)
    across Lake Michigan into Green Bay, up the Fox River and down the Wisconsin River. Descending the Mississippi, in June, they met the Peoria and Moingwena...
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  • California ("Upper California"), the Mexican territory that later became the US state of California Alta, Illinois, a community in Peoria County, Illinois...
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    from his company and the narrative of the Jesuits, who continued on to upper Lake Erie. Other accounts have it that some of La Salle's men soon returned...
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    through a small canyon called "Black Canyon" into Lake Pleasant, a popular recreation area near Peoria, Arizona. (There is a large "Black Canyon" on the...
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    and fringe areas of the Great Lakes megalopolis. The upper Great lakes region has a marine corridor that connects Lakes Superior, Huron, and Michigan...
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    Indian Confederacy, was a loose confederacy of Native Americans in the Great Lakes region of the United States created after the American Revolutionary War...
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    State Game Production Area Oahe Mission Recreation Area Peoria Flats State Game Production Area Peoria Flats State Lakeside Use Area Rousseau State Game Production...
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    Illinois). Thus, Vincennes and Peoria were the limit of Louisiana's reach. The outposts at Ouiatenon (on the upper Wabash near present-day Lafayette...
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    Asian carp in North America (category Great Lakes)
    to the ecology, environment, economy, and way of life in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada. The term refers to a...
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    interstate, fluctuating between EF2 and EF3 strength as it passed near East Peoria. As it entered Washington, the tornado became violent as some homes in the...
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    Henri de Tonti (category Writers from Peoria, Illinois)
    de Tonti was one of the first explorers to navigate and sail the upper Great Lakes. He also sailed the Illinois and the Mississippi, to its mouth and...
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  • Money" Unknown Unknown August 1, 2014 (2014-08-01) Doris Ann Carlson of Peoria, Arizona, and her husband, David, hired twenty-year-old Dan McReaken and...
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    controls water flow from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River system. The upper lock, T.J. O'Brien, is 7 miles from Lake Michigan on the Calumet River...
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  • Suicide of Joe Gliniewicz (category Lake County, Illinois)
    "Illinois village shocked, dismayed over news about officer". Associated Press. Peoria Public Radio. 5 November 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2020. https://www.facebook...
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