This is my city Peoria, IL Born and raised on the city’s South Side in a neighborhood called the Harrison Homes. Peoria is very small and isolated but so much to do in a small city. I love to ride my bike on the Rock Island Trail that starts on the Riverfront (Peoria) and ends in a town named Toulon. The best places to get ice cream here is Tall Bobs, Emo’s, and the Ice Cream Shack. All family owned businesses. Peoria has its ups & downs but I’m happy to have been born & raised here.
One wonders why such a small city needed so many distilleries back in the day. A lot of really exceptional buildings in Peoria. Another excellent video. Thanks and have a great week. Cheers! 🤠
Maybe the original purpose of all those distilleries was actually for the production and manufacture of Distilled Water. They would have certainly repurposed them as distilled water was never been part of the plan in the New World.
The reason why is because it was an easy way to get to Chicago. Peoria was the stop before Chicago for many things from alcohol to theater (check out history of the Peoria players theater)
These kind of historical views and presentations leave out some very interesting aspects of places like Peoria, I came from here a long, long time ago and when I was young this city was wild and could be fun. It was always rumored that when members of the Chicago Outfit had a lot of heat on them they came down to Peoria for a while until things cooled off. Richard Pryor is from Peoria and his grandmother who raised him ran a brothel on Aiken Alley in Peoria, I will admit freely to having frequented that establishment as often as I could get the extra money to go as a teenager. In those days Caterpillar ran everything if they said shit, the mayor did so in the color Cat yellow.
Great vid. Grew up there. It would be cool if you could contrast the old pictures with Peorias current state/look. Its really cool to see the old world that is fading away. Thank you!
I live in Peoria too and I'm trying to gather information from the era from around December 17, 1811. "Originally known as Fort Clark, it received its current name when the County of Peoria was organized in 1825". I can't find any specific details about the original fort. Or how long it was there before it was founded. Perhaps a description of what happened on that date. I learned about Henri de Tonti but I think he only went down as far as Starved Rock so I'm kinda confused. I think they took a different way to the Mississippi River to "discover" Louisiana. They were trying to find a mythical river across America to make trade with China/Asia/India.
Broken history.... Once one looks into it all, it's hard to ignore the lies and the pattern used to sew a narrative. .... Another great video, thank you.💟
Madison theater has hosted events up to just a decade or so ago it sat abandoned for years and was being considered to be torn down! The last I knew someone has bought the place and there are supposed to plans to bring it back to its former glory. The building right on the river I believe was an old power plant.
i believe that might have been the old coal power plant in EP that used to supply most of the cities power, but strangely enough, heat! That plant used the steam generated to power turbines to heat homes and businesses through a series of underground pipes not unlike the same system New York STILL has today
A culture that appreciates art...yes. But, also a "cultural narrative" that uses entertainment to distract. In addition, when looking at these beautiful 😍 old architecture, the builds look sooo TOP heavy.
Thank you again, would you agree The Great Wall was also built by these builders. I am happy to be a part of this small community, that questions the narrative, and thank you for what you do to help the truth....................rich..............acoG
Renovate can be translated as "the new sun", gives some insight as to forces of destruction available to the controllers while looking at our recent buried past?
Whatever construction company built one of these large, tall buildings probably didn't use some Mickey Mouse scaffolding, made out of 2 x 4s. It's a wonder that not one of these builders can be tracked down! (it's not a small company that owns 1 quarter million dollars worth of scaffolding)
What a great presentation! I was born and raised in Peoria and I am now 72 y/o. So I have seen a lot of the buildings you reviewed. I was hoping you had a pic of Lincoln Elementary School where I attended as a child. Of course it has been torn down now, along with the house I grew up in which was directly across the street from the historic Old Catholic Church that is still standing. Something you didn't mention is that Peoria, along with many other cities in Illinois were Indigenous Native American territories prior to " the invasion." of the white man... lol. Did you know that a Native American burial ground was discovered under the Lincoln Street Library when it was being excavated for expansion. And of course there are Mounds all over Illinois. But you are so correct in that the old brick buildings resembles structures that you would find in Poland or Scandinavia. Clearly there are still a lot of hidden secrets that some do not want to be revealed. Thank you for your presentation on Peoria, Illinois.
What is this guy talking about? Especially at the end when he says "That dog don't hunt" he refers to a structure on the Illinois river as a factory that was in fact the Central Illinois Light Company power plant in East Peoria for about a century. it was eventually torn down and replaced by a Walmart and a Bass Pro Shop. Many of this guys comments actually reveal he knows nothing about this area or it's history.
He keeps talking about lies, deception and narratives in contrasting old world architecture vs mid-century modernist structures. Politicizing architecture, I suppose. The world is full of strange ideologies and people who tend to overthink things in search villains.
Peoria had a very big history! It was the center of entertainment. People would come up from New Orleans for the night life and entertainment. It used to be the Whiskey Capital of the World! So much vice that Wyatt Earp was arrested fo running a gambling and prostitution barge here. Riverboats and Opra Houses abound! The Shelton brothers ran the town along with corrupt politicians, even Al Capone wouldn't even go up against them. It is the oldest Occupied city in Illinois and had a very large Native population that in its self very rich in history.
Genesis 11:3 “And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.” Genesis 11:4 “And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:5 “And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.”Genesis 11:6 “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”Genesis 11:7 “Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.” Genesis 11:8 “So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city.”Genesis 11:9 “Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”
I have to watch your other video's ya don't have much good to say about Peoria Il. I was raised there and Peoria was a happening town yes it has changed,but I want to listen to your other stuff
So here we are again, with another great and beautiful city, that surely was created by a people who loved it and took mindful care of it, it was their home. But how did they do that, did they have an army of flying nuns ? Flying around the place with a feather duster and some windex. These places would be very nice but in " our " world, they would be/ are a real pain to maintain. BUT ! if you were a race of masters and or avatars, you would just see the buildings clean and staying that way when you created them. You see, I'm not so sure that these buildings were " built " in the normal sense of the world or thinking. Tell me what you think a " manifested city " would be / look like. Too far off the tracks for ya ? Well, what about that world wide power station / structures that are powering all of this. I'm telling you, these cities were made by masters for masters and that's why some of the native people in the area have stories of whole megalithic structures going up in one night. Anyway, we should start looking at these places in that light, give them the recognition they deserve and maybe, just maybe, a few will pop in on us and set the record straight. Right now, it's just a whole bunch of tail chasing. Love the vids though, I don't know about you guys but for me, these structures are very ? Honored places ? Like I know them.
I just can't make the narrative fit in, like you, I see nothing that makes sense. So, let's try to come together as a group. A community, get Jon and even Roger from Mudd focil U. And try to come up with an actual date for these structures. We know that they were Not ! Built in 1843 or 89 or 04, there is going to be a time that they weren't there and then, Pop ! They are. I think the native American Indians are going to be the ones who will get that done for us. Why else would you want to wipe them off the planet.
