Peoria
Peoria is a city in central Illinois. Set on the Illinois River, the Peoria Riverfront Museum has a striking, contemporary design. It offers a planetarium, a sculpture garden and a collection of fine art. Northeast, near Peoria Lake, Glen Oak Park includes the Luthy Botanical Garden and the Peoria Zoo. West of the city, Wildlife Prairie Park has forest trails and native animals, including bison, cougars and bears.
People died in Peoria (First 39 people) - Page 0
Howard Nathan
American basketball player
Harvey Kuenn
American baseball player
Mike Darr
Baseball player
Grady Lewis
American basketball player
Dick Whitman
American baseball player
Moe Becker
American professional basketball player
Elwyn L. Simons
American paleontologist
Randy Veres
Baseball player
Charles McGinnis
American olympic athlete
Leo Bersani
American critic
Doug Grindstaff
Sound editor
Philip José Farmer
American author
Eddie King
American guitarist
George Nonte
American author
Joseph V. Graff
Former United States Representative
Dabney H. Maury
Author
Lydia Moss Bradley
Philanthropist
John E. Hodge
American chemist
Bob Caruthers
Baseball player
Wayne A. Downing
Former Deputy National Security Advisor of the United States
John Lancaster Spalding
American author
Fred Stobaugh
Songwriter
Robert Dale Morgan
Former Mayor of Peoria
Thomas Ford
Former Governor of Illinois
William Kellogg
U. S. representative
Billy Stone
American football player
Norwood Gibson
Baseball player
B. H. Born
American basketball player
Gene Wolfe
American fiction writer
Joseph Henry Leo Schlarman
George Pinkney
Baseball player
Harry Bay
Baseball player
George Shadid
Former Member of the Illinois Senate
Claude U. Stone
Former United States Representative
Ernst Ising
German physicist
Herbert Jamison
Olympic athlete
Richard Fulton Becker
Albert Tilford Johnson
Teller