[Raebie]

My mom still lives there and I go back occasionally to visit..my 30 year HS reunion is coming up this summer...not sure I’m going back.

Peoria has certainly declined over the past 10-12 years. The house I grew up in is not essentially located in a ghetto. Peoria is the epitome of white flight out of the city...not even the inner city, but what used to be nice middle class neighborhoods. The taxes are off the hook and the schools are downright scary. Not the city I knew as a child.

[Raebie]

that should be ‘now is esssentially a ghetto’.

[aruanan]

Peoria has certainly declined over the past 10-12 years. The house I grew up in is not essentially located in a ghetto. Peoria is the epitome of white flight out of the city...not even the inner city, but what used to be nice middle class neighborhoods. The taxes are off the hook and the schools are downright scary. Not the city I knew as a child.

The place my dad grew up in Peoria, near Fredonia, is definitely a ghetto. We lived way outside of town near the airport off of Farmington Rd between Pleasant Valley and Norwood.

[cradle of freedom]

Would you know if Peoria is a Democrat majority city?

[cradle of freedom]

Would you know if Peoria is a Democrat majority city?

[BilLies]

Checked some statistics on the Web:
PEORIA CITY: 65% White; 28% Black; Asian, Hispanic other less than 4% each.
PEORIA SCHOOLS: 62% Black, 33% White.

Funny how ratios always seem to get inverted like that when a city’s Black population approach or are greater than 20%. Albany, NY; Boston MA come to mind.

Incidentally, “Peoria School District 150” ranks 697th of 834 Illinois school districts according to SchoolDigger ratings.