Illustrated Souvenir of PEORIA LOCATED ON THE ILLINOIS RIVER )EORIA is noted for her importance as a manufacturing and commercial center. It is a city of well-paved streets, beautiful homes, good schools, fine churches and hospit- able people. Wonderful natural resources. The most extensive coal mining center in the United States west of Pittsburg. The largest consumer of corn in the world. Greatest distilling district in the world. A prosperous, modern thriving city of 80,000 population, destined to surely become a city of 125,000 inhabitants within the next ten years of the Twentieth Century. PUBLISHED for W. G. PUTNAM & COMPANY 222-224 SOUTH ADAMS STREET PEORIA, ILLINOIS Copyright, 1908, by L. H. NELSON COMPANY, Portland, Me. VIEW OF PEORIA LOOKING NORTH FROM MAIN AND ADAMS STREETS VIEW OF SOUTH ADAMS STREET ADAMS STREET LOOKING NORTH FROM LIBERTY JEFFERSON STREET LOOKING NORTH FROM FULTON GOVERNMENT BUILDING CITY HALL COLISEUM MILITARY DAY IN PEORIA PUBLIC LIBRARY Y. M. C. A. BUILDING UNION DEPOT CHICAGO & ROCK ISLAND DEPOT HOTEL FEY DIME SAVINGS & TRUST CO. NATIONAL HOTEL MAYER HOTEL CREVE COEUR CLUB COUNTRY CLUB Greeley School. High School. Lincoln School. REPRESENTATIVE SCHOOL BUILDINGS OF PEORIA SPALDING INSTITUTE BRADLEY POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL PROCTOR ENDOWMENT HOME FOR AGED PEOPLE ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL PROCTOR HOSPITAL HAMILTON BOULEVARD RANDOLPH AVENUE SANDMEYER FLATS LAWN OF MRS. CHARLOTTE S. WOODWARD DRAW OF McKINLEY BRIDGE STEAMBOAT LANDING, FOOT OF MAIN STREET BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF UPPER FREE BRIDGE LAKE AND BRIDGE IN GLEN OAK PARK VIEW IN GLEN OAK PARK FOUNTAIN IN GLEN OAK PARK PAVILION IN GLEN OAK PARK VIEW OF BRADLEY PARK PAVILION FIGURE EIGHT, AL FRESCO PARK AL FRESCO PARK PLANT OF CLARK & CO., DISTILLERS BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF AVERYVILLE ^ w M o H C/J . H a . M , < I JS *S s2