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Peoria is the oldest European settlement in Illinois, as explorers first ventured up the Illinois River from the Mississippi. The lands that eventually would become Peoria were first settled by Europeans in 1680, when French explorers René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle and Henri de Tonti constructed Fort Crevecoeur. [7]
Peoria Heights is a village lying in Peoria County in the U.S. state of Illinois.The population was 6,156 at the 2010 census, down from 6,635 in 2000.Peoria Heights is a suburb of Peoria, is sometimes referred to as Uptown, and is surrounded by the city except for its eastern boundary on Peoria Lake, a relatively wider section of the Illinois River.
According to the US Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 631 square miles (1,630 km 2), of which 619 square miles (1,600 km 2) is land and 11 square miles (28 km 2) (1.8%) is water. [4]
Richwoods High School is the most northern of the three regular public high schools in Peoria, Illinois, United States.Opened as a township high school in 1957, it was brought into Peoria Public Schools District 150 in the 1960s.
OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, located in Peoria, Illinois, United States, is a teaching hospital [1] for the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria and part of the OSF Healthcare System. [2]
ZCTAs or ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the census equivalent of ZIP codes used for statistical purposes. The reason why regular ZIP codes are not used is because they are defined by routes rather than geographic boundaries. Thus, they have the tendency to overlap and otherwise create difficulties.
A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan [1]) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly [2] (zipping along) when senders use the code in the postal address.
Peoria Notre Dame school traces its roots back to 1863, when Father Abram Ryan and seven Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet founded a parochial school to educate young Catholic women in Peoria that would become Academy of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, known usually by the shorter name, Academy of Our Lady.