Area guide
Peoria
The river, the old neighborhoods, the houses with real character.
Peoria sits on the Illinois River with a downtown riverfront you can actually walk: the Peoria Riverfront Museum, the Caterpillar Visitors Center, the Civic Center (concerts, touring shows, and Rivermen hockey) and Dozer Park, where the Chiefs play, are all within a few blocks of each other.
The older neighborhoods are full of 1900s–1940s houses: brick, hardwood, built-ins, porches. Many list for less than a condo on the coast (ask me for recent sales), and a lot of them want a little love. That's the fun part.
If you work remotely, this is the kind of town where your rent in San Diego becomes a mortgage with room to spare.
- Typical home
- Pre-war brick or frame house with a porch, hardwood and built-ins
- Good for
- Remote workers, first-time buyers, people who like old houses
- Ask me about
- All the different kinds of homes around Peoria. You can live in a converted warehouse downtown, an idyllic suburb, or even out on rolling farmland.
Downtown & the riverfront
The river, the bridges, old bank towers, and the Warehouse District, where the brick walls double as an art gallery.
Around the West Bluff
Photos from my own walks through the historic neighborhoods by Bradley University: brick mansions, old stone walls, and street lamps that come on right as the sky turns pink.
