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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 126 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city, See also:port of entry, and the See also:county-seat of Peoria county, See also:Illinois, U.S.A., in the See also:north central See also:part of the See also:state, on the See also:lower end of See also:Lake Peoria, an expansion of the Illinois See also:river, and about 15o m. S.W. of See also:Chicago. Pop. (1900) 56,1oo; (Iglo) 66,95o. It is served by 13 See also:railways, of which the most important are the Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy, the Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific, the Chicago & See also:Alton, the Illinois Central, the See also:Cleveland, See also:Cincinnati, Chicago & St See also:Louis, and the Chicago & North-Western. The Illinois river is navigable to its mouth, and at La Salle, above Peoria, connects with the Illinois &" breed " traders, trappers and farmers, had been established about 11 m. above the See also:foot of the lake, on its See also:west See also:shore. This See also:village was practically deserted during the later years (1781-1783) of the See also:War of See also:Independence, and when its inhabitants returned after the See also:peace they settled in a village which had been established about 1778, on the See also:present site of Peoria, by See also:Jean See also:Baptiste Maillet '(d. 18o1), and was at first called La Ville de Maillet. It is probable that Jean Baptiste Point de Saible, believed to have been a Santo Domingan See also:negro, and jocularly spoken of "as the first See also:white set:'_er in Chicago," lived in the " old village " of Peoria as See also:early as 1973—0r six years before he settled on the present site of Chicago—and again about 1783. In See also:November 1812 about See also:half of the See also:town was burned by a See also:company of Illinois See also:militia who had been sent thither to build a fort, and whose See also:captain asserted that his boats had been fired upon at See also:night by the villagers. In the following See also:year a fort, named Fort See also:Clark in See also:honour of See also:George See also:Rogers Clark, was erected on the site of the old village; it was evacuated in 1818, and soon afterwards was burned by the See also:Indians. After the town was burned there was no serious See also:attempt to rebuild until 1819.

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Michigan See also:Canal extending to Chicago. The river is spanned at Peoria was incorporated as a town in 1835 and was chartered Peoria by two railway See also:bridges and a See also:wagon See also:bridge. The as a city in 1845. In 1900 North Peoria was annexed. residential portion of the city is situated on bluffs overlooking See See also:David McCulloch, Early Days of Peoria and Chicago, an address read before the Chicago See also:Historical Society in 1904, and published by that society, (n.d.), and " Old Peoria," by the same author, in publication No. 6 of the Illinois State Historical Society Trans-actions (See also:Springfield, See also:Ill. Igor); also Historical See also:Encyclopaedia of Illinois (Chicago, 'goo), ed. by See also:Newton See also:Bateman and See also:Paul See also:Selby; See also:History of Peoria County,`:,Ill. (Chicago, 188o) ; and C. See also:Ballance, History of Peoria (Peoria, 187o).

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