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The Peoria County Sheriff's Office is investigating the discovery of a Black male found in the Illinois River.
A woman was found dead in the Illinois River in Peoria County. ... An employee found a female body floating in the river about 20 feet from the shore, the Sheriff's Office said.
A police chase and subsequent car rollover are believed to have preceded the death of a 14-year-old boy found dead in the Illinois River earlier this month.. The Peoria County Sheriff's Department ...
The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of navigable water from the mouth of the Calumet River at Chicago to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. Based primarily on the Illinois River , it is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals that provide a commercial shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ...
The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi [4]) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois , [ 5 ] the river has a drainage basin of 28,756.6 square miles (74,479 km 2 ). [ 6 ]
Illinois, Colorado: 1966–1982: 3+ Serial killer whose first murder in 1966 was of his sister-in-law in Joliet, Illinois [39] [40] John Wayne Gacy: Norwood Park: 1972–1978: 33-45: Serial killer and rapist, also known as the "Killer Clown", who killed at least 33 young men and boys [41] [42] Robert Ben Rhoades: Texas, Illinois: 1975–1990: 3 ...
A memorial service will be held on July 15 for Leron Griffin, the 14-year-old found dead in the Illinois River.. Griffin was born in Peoria but lived in Bloomington and attended Bloomington Junior ...
This section of the river lies in the central Illinois River Valley and is administered by the state of Illinois as the Marshall State Fish and Wildlife Area. The valley was formed during the Wisconsin glaciation , which is responsible for the cobbles and boulders left in the area.