Peoria County is celebrating 200 years of existence this month, and county leaders are marking the occasion with a widespread public art installation.
Edward Barry, vice president of the Peoria Historical Society, said the county’s borders looked very different when it was founded in 1825.
“Peoria was the size of the Netherlands, clocking in at over 16,000 square miles,” Barry said at a kickoff event Monday at the Peoria Riverfront Museum. “Including the present day counties of Putnam, Knox, Henry, Tazewell, Mason, Logan, McLean, Woodford, and Marshall”…