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The historic Grant's Inn building was standing before Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Peoria Speech at the Peoria County Courthouse in downtown Peoria.. Caterpillar Inc. located its Technical Research Center (Tech Center) in Mossville in the 1960s, and subsequently put production facilities (the Mossville plant, most of which no longer exists, due to Caterpillar relocating these facilities ...
Caterpillar's Mossville Engine Center formed a team to look at used oil reuse and recycle processes that forced MEC to send large amounts of used oil off-site for recycling, and developed an updated system for reclaiming it for reuse on-site. The resulting benefits included a usage reduction of about 208,000 US gallons (790 m 3) of oil per year.
One person is dead after a fire Thursday at Caterpillar's Mapleton foundry.. Peoria County Sheriff's Office deputies responded at about 5 p.m. to the plant on U.S. Route 24 on reports of a fire ...
There are four different plants in Mapleton, all located along U.S. Route 24: an Evonik chemical plant, a Lonza Group plant, a Caterpillar Inc. foundry, and an Ingredion facility; together, the large industrial complex forms one of Mapleton's (and the wider Peoria area's) most significant employers and a good source of skilled employees and ...
The Caterpillar Challenger MT875B was the most powerful production tractor available during its span with 430 kW gross (580 hp) engine power. [6] In 2007, the MT875B broke the world record for most land tilled in 24 hours with a custom-made, 14 metres (46 ft) disc harrow fabricated by Grégoire Besson. [7] It tilled 644 hectares (1,590 acres).
George Schaefer (1928 – 2013) was an American businessman who was CEO of Caterpillar Inc., a US-based construction equipment company. Schaefer graduated from Saint Louis University in 1951 to begin his career at Caterpillar, where he spent the next 39 years. Schaefer rose to the position of chairman and CEO of the company in 1985 up until ...
David Lynch has died at the age of 78, his family announced on Thursday, Jan. 16. "It is with deep regret that we, his family, announce the passing of the man and the artist, David Lynch. We would ...
Medina Township is located north of Peoria, in Peoria County, Illinois, and in the Illinois River Valley (West of the river itself).As of the 2010 census, its population was 12,564 and it contained 4,993 housing units.