1. Peoria - Noun
2. Peoria - Proper noun
a city in central Illinois on the Illinois River
Source: WordNetThrough the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital. Vincent Canby
“A great example comes from the City of Peoria, which turned to the Continuum of Care to propose allocation of the additional Emergency Solutions Grant funds that came through the CARES Act,” Green continues. Source: Internet
Although the billboard in Peoria went up without a hitch, organizers had trouble in Champaign, where the first vendor they hired declined the job. Source: Internet
Both of the bishops were filmed in their offices at the Spalding Pastoral Center in Peoria and wore masks initially to show support for the protocols being followed in schools and parishes. Source: Internet
At the age of 19, Hale burned an Israeli flag at a demonstration and was found guilty of violating an East Peoria ordinance against open burning. Source: Internet
His civil rights work stretched back more than six decades, to his first sit-in demonstrations in the 1940s in Peoria, Ill. He met King soon after the budding civil rights leader's victory in the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Source: Internet