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Peoria Civic Center is an entertainment complex located in downtown Peoria, Illinois. Designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Philip Johnson [3] and John Burgee, [4] it has an arena, theater, exhibit hall and meeting rooms. [5] It opened in 1982 [6] and completed an expansion to its lobby and meeting facilities in 2007. [7]
In the 1960s, Peoria City Hall was the site of public speeches by Adlai Stevenson III, Edward Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson. [5] [9] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in February 1973. The Peoria Civic Center was built behind it in 1982.
Peoria Civic Center. The Peoria Civic Center includes an arena, convention center, and theater, and opened June 6, 1982, was designed by the famed late architect Philip Johnson. [95] It completed a $55 million renovation and expansion by 2007. [96] The Hotel Pere Marquette finished renovations in 2013 [97] with a skyway linking to the Peoria ...
The annual Peoria Community Christmas Sing will take place at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 12, in the lobby of the Peoria Riverfront Museum, 222 SW Washington St. Admission is free and all are welcome ...
The Civic Center was a major pet project for Peoria officials in the 1970s. They pushed hard for its addition to Downtown Peoria. Finally completed in 1982, the Civic Center last had significant ...
The Harlem Globetrotters 2024 World Tour will swing through Illinois in January with a stop at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Ill. Harlem Globetrotters 2024 World Tour tickets set to go on ...
While Peoria was platted in the 1820s, the oldest buildings in the district date from 1867, shortly before Peoria's economic boom of the 1870s. In the late nineteenth century, Peoria's whiskey industry was among the largest in the world, and many downtown civic improvements and public buildings were funded by whiskey profits. By the turn of the ...
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