Crossword clues for peoria
peoria
- Illinois River port
- Illinois county or its seat
- Headquarters of Caterpillar
- City on the Illinois
- City connected to the question "Will it play there?"
- Caterpillar's home city
- Where pols want it to play
- Where Betty Friedan and Richard Pryor were born
- Test marketer's city
- Site of Bradley U
- River port of Illinois
- Richard Pryor's Illinois birthplace
- Midwestern symbol of Middle America
- Midwest League city where the Chiefs play
- Middle America, symbolically
- Lllinois city that symbolizes Middle America
- John Q. Public's hometown
- Illinois test-marketing town
- Illinois River's largest city
- Illinois home to Caterpillar, Inc
- Illinois city that symbolizes Middle America
- Illinois city that symbolizes mainstream America
- Illinois city symbolizing mainstream America
- Illinois city on the Illinois River
- Illinois birthplace of Richard Pryor and Betty Friedan
- Home to Bradley University
- Home of Caterpillar
- Home base for Caterpillar
- Famously mainstream American town
- Everytown, USA
- City that symbolizes Middle America
- City on Illinois river
- City of central Illinois
- City north of Springfield
- City famed for test-marketing
- Caterpillar's base
- Betty Friedan's birthplace
- America's Everytown
- "Will it play in ________?"
- "But will it play in ________?"
- ''Will it play in __?''
- Bradley University site
- "Will it play in ___?"
- Noted spot in test-marketing
- Illinois River city
- City on the Illinois River
- Midwest city founded as Fort Clark
- Illinois city symbolizing middle America
- Where the Chiefs play minor-league baseball
- Central Illinois city
- People wonder if it'll play there
- Home of the Chiefs in minor-league baseball
- Place to play?
- Largest city on the Illinois River
- Home of Caterpillar, Inc
- Hometown of old radio's Fibber McGee and Molly
- "But will it play in ___?"
- Symbol of Middle America
- Midwest city representing average tastes
- Phoenix suburb larger than the Midwest city it's named for
- Metonym for Middle America
- Illinois home of Caterpillar
- Where Caterpillar is headquartered
- Caterpillar's Illinois home
- A city in central Illinois on the Illinois River
- Site of Bradley U.
- Bradley campus site
- Bradley U. site
- Site of a Lincoln antislavery speech: 1854
- Noted test-marketing site
- Illinois city famed for test-marketing
- Vaudevillian's bellwehter
- Ill. city of concern to actors
- Where Bradley is
- Average Town, U.S.A.
- Symbolic show-biz city
- Where Bradley U. is located
- Geographical symbol of Middle America
- Everycity, USA
- Metropolitan symbol of the American mainstream
- Largest city on the Illinois
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
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 that has been proverbially regarded as the typical measure of U.S. cultural and intellectual standards at least since Ambrose Bierce (c.1890). Also the butt of baseball player jokes (c.1920-40, when it was part of the St. Louis Cardinals farm system) and popularized in the catchphrase "It'll play in Peoria" (often negative), meaning "the average American will approve," which was popular in the Nixon White House (1969-74) but seems to have had a vaudeville origin. Personification in "little old lady in Peoria" is said to be from Harold Ross of the "New Yorker." Peoria's rivals as embodiment of U.S. small city values and standards include Dubuque, Iowa; Hoboken and Hackensack, N.J.; Oakland (Gertrude Stein: "When you get there, there isn't any there there") and Burbank, Calif., and the entire state of North Dakota.
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 42573
Land area (2000): 138.217232 sq. miles (357.980973 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.462036 sq. miles (8.966631 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 141.679268 sq. miles (366.947604 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54050
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 33.649738 N, 112.251584 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 85345 85381 85382
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Headwords:
Peoria
Housing Units (2000): 59
Land area (2000): 0.242285 sq. miles (0.627515 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.242285 sq. miles (0.627515 sq. km)
FIPS code: 58100
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.915128 N, 94.670256 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Peoria
Housing Units (2000): 49125
Land area (2000): 44.403632 sq. miles (115.004873 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.229584 sq. miles (5.774597 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 46.633216 sq. miles (120.779470 sq. km)
FIPS code: 59000
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.720737 N, 89.609421 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61602 61604 61605 61606 61615
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Headwords:
Peoria
Housing Units (2000): 78204
Land area (2000): 619.522444 sq. miles (1604.555696 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 11.363226 sq. miles (29.430618 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 630.885670 sq. miles (1633.986314 sq. km)
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.752492 N, 89.665063 W
Headwords:
Peoria, IL
Peoria County
Peoria County, IL
Wikipedia
Peoria can refer to:
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.