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Peoria high won the first Illinois state championship for basketball in 1908. [3] They also won the first state track and field championship in May 1893. [3] Peoria High is a member of the Big Twelve Conference (Illinois) in athletics, and the school mascot is the Lions. The school mascot was the Maroons until the late 1940s when it was changed.
Peoria Public Schools District 150, also known as Peoria Public Schools (PPS), is a school district headquartered in Peoria, Illinois. The district is in Peoria County . It includes most of Peoria, as well as much of West Peoria and sections of Bartonville .
Peoria High School is the name of multiple secondary schools in the United States: Peoria High School (Arizona) , in Peoria, Arizona Peoria High School (Peoria, Illinois) , in Peoria, Illinois — also known as Central
The culmination of the season was the traditional "Turkey Day" Thanksgiving game against Peoria High School, often drawing 10,000 to Peoria Stadium (where all Peoria high school home games were played). During those years there was no state football playoffs. Ken Hinrichs was the football coach and is in the Illinois coaches hall of fame.
Top high school basketball player in USA shot to death: Flukey Stokes: Chicago: 1986-11-19: Drug kingpin murdered along with his chauffeur sitting in a Cadillac limousine: Stephen B. Small: Kankakee: 1987-09-02: Business kidnapped and held for ransom, died from asphyxiation due to conditions of confinement: Ioan Petru Culianu: Chicago: 1991-05-21
Nathan attended Manual High School in Peoria and was named Illinois Mr. Basketball in 1991. [1] He appears in the 1994 documentary film Hoop Dreams as the victor of Arthur Agee 's John Marshall Metropolitan High School Commandos in the 1991 Illinois high school basketball championship tournament. [ 2 ]
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