About Peoria, Illinois

Peoria? Where is that?

Right in the middle of everything!


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Peoria Community Facts

Population (Peoria County): 183,655
Population (Peoria-Pekin MSA): 372,487
Median Family Income: $63,003
Mean Travel Time to Work: 18.8 minutes
Total Housing Units: 82,241
% Owner-Occupied: 69.1%
Avg. Home Sale Price (2009): $128,401
Annual Retail Sales (MSA): $4.7 billion
Cost of Living Composite Index: 101.9
Major Private Employers: Caterpillar, OSF St. Francis, Methodist Medical Center, School District 150, Keystone Steel and Wire, Komatsu, RLI, Maui Jim, eServ, ATS, Bradley University, Proctor Hospital

Higher Education

Bradley University
Illinois Central College
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Midstate College
Methodist College of Nursing
St. Francis College of Nursing

Healthcare

OSF St. Francis
Children's Hospital of Illinios
Methodist Medical Center
Proctor Hospital
Greater Peoria Specialty Hospital


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How Peoria Ranks

#5 Best place to start a business (CNN)

#33 Most Balanced Economy and Growth (inc.)

#51 Best Places to Live (Sperling)

1 of 20 Great Adventure Towns (National Geographic)

Infrastructure

The City of Peoria currentlhy owns over 220,000 linear feet of conduit ready to be used for Google's fiber optics.

Additionally, A5.com owns and operates a state-of-the-art Tier 2 data center in downtown Peoria. Features include:

  • Redundant air conditioning systems
  • Bandwidth control and monitoring
  • OC 48, diverse path, multi-homed Internet connections
  • Redundant uninteruptible power systems


Datacenter Information

A5 Backbone information

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