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City of central Illinois
Answer for the clue "City of central Illinois ", 6 letters:
peoria
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Word definitions for peoria in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Peorias \Pe*o"ri*as\, n. pl.; sing. Peoria . (Ethnol.) An Algonquin tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited a part of Illinois.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
small city in Illinois, U.S., originally the name of a subdivision of the Miami/Illinois people (1673), from native /peewaareewa/ . Their own name is said to mean "carriers." The place name also is found in Oklahoma and Iowa, but it is the Illinois city ...
Usage examples of peoria.
City of Peoria police officers, Detectives Carol Strong and Mark Hansen, traveled over four hundred miles from Peoria to Paul Spur to make the arrest.
The only high-rise for miles around, the twelve-story newly finished hotel towered over its low-rise Old Peoria neighbors, its layers of lighted windows glowing like beacons as Joanna made her way north on Grand Avenue.
After all, since this was Peoria, a call to the Peoria Police Department ought to be a local call.
Armed with an address from the phone book and her notes, she headed for downtown Peoria and the Roundhouse Bar and Grill.
The Peoria Police Department was located in a modern, well-landscaped complex that included several buildings that seemed to have grown up out of recently harvested cotton fields.
She had no idea how many officers worked for the Peoria Police Department, but the place was alive with cops, both in and out of uniform.
January, Joanna returned to Peoria to complete her interrupted session at the APOA.
And a demented old inmate of a Peoria nursing home was definitely not part of the inner circle.
Oak Hill grocery store a block from the park or into the west side Peoria Safeway.
The phone was equipped for e-mail, of course, but he was old-fashioned and he made the infrared connections to the Thinkpad and dialed up the Peoria AOL access number.
War Memorial Drive became Highway 150 outside of Peoria, and Dale drove the Buick the back way to Elm Haven, leaving the window open to air the cigarette smell out of the car.
Civil War, and then the Gypsies had taken the lane as their own, moving from Oak Hill to Princeville, Princeville to Peoria, Peoria north toward Chicago on this secret highway in the moonlight, their horse carts and caravans creaking through the darkness and leaf shadow.
Less than a mile later, where I must cross 150A, I have to wait a minute for several trucks heading toward Peoria to rumble past.
Being at the training center in Peoria was Tike being born again, somehow, and I guess being born always hurts.
I talked to him every day of the week I was in Peoria, and that eased the pain and strangeness considerably.