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Peoria is well served by I-74, I-155, and an airport with international services but these C-level execs are not flying coach, either. The corporate air fleet includes 3 Challenger 604 bizjets worth around $35 million apiece and about 10 pilots on staff. So don’t tell me this is so the CEO can get to O’Hare quicker. Sure it would be more convenient for the managers and staff members who travel frequenly in/out of Peoria but those aren’t the jobs that are moving.

It is true that Peoria is some distance from anywhere. This is why it’s called “Flyover Country”. It is also a “blue city” which is why the congressonal district was gerrymandered to include Peoria as part of Durbin’s strategy to get his former babysitter Cheri Bustos elected.

Peoria is well served by I-74, I-155

Only from Champaign, Indianapolis and St. Louis. If you are going from Chicago or even my old home of Rockford (which has some things in common with Peoria) there is not straight highway, you have to go 25-30 miles out of your way versus a straight shot. I-155 is a spur, and 74 leads to Davenport, and NOT in a straight diagonal but in a near right angle. From too many locations you spend more miles to get to Peoria than you ought to have to. I know, as I made the trip there numerous times.