Peoria

Mainstream gays want Pride parades to play well in Peoria, with large corporate floats and photogenic participants.

Peoria indulges in, and mostly enjoys, just about every vice known to man or woman from New York to Baghdad to Bangkok.

Ernst even sought to find out how Ulysses might play in Peoria (not well, if the returned survey is any indication).

And how the world then reacts has equally major ripples from Peoria to Portland.

The 16-year-old Shali was dropped into the alien world of high school in Peoria, Ill., unable to speak a word of English.

A trail cut thither from Peoria soon became a well-worn coach road; roads were early opened to Chicago and Milwaukee.

About the middle of that September our annual Conference met in their new and not yet finished chapel, on Peoria bottom.

In 1835 he removed to Illinois, where in 1839 he joined the Peoria party for emigration to Oregon.

Away back in the fifties, "Hinman's" was not only the best school in Peoria, but it was the greatest school in the world.

At Peoria Lake they struck open water, and paddled thence to the Mississippi and turned their prows southward.