Kickapoo Building 3:14 Madison Theater 5:44 Plaza Tire "Vanna Whitewall" 9:18 former Jumer's Castle Lodge 12:43

I lost so many clients when that happened 😪

Now they are headquarters in Deerfield.

@@conservativehippie9736 are you a food server or something

i was going to comment the same thing

If it ain't about the money and being exploited then call me jack willis

Do you like it in Peoria? Considering moving there. Interested in your pros and cons.

@@zerosashes Not original poster. I moved away several years ago after living in the metro for years. The place has a lot of character and I think the people are great. The economy is stagnant, though, so it's hard to get ahead and a lot of neighborhoods, businesses, etc are in decline. There are definitely bright spots though and we still enjoy visiting friends and family. If I needed to move back I wouldn't feel bad about it.

YES! I totally agree with your comment

Do you like it in Peoria? Considering moving there. Interested in your pros and cons.

@@zerosashesdid you move? I’m thinking if it

Don't be fooled, Peoria is a craphole..

@@nicholasjohnson6267 stop!

Thank you!

@@vmikerotch5464 peoria has one ghetto area in thesouth end. The rest is not at all.

@@Arobisme north end isn't any better

I was born in Iowa City, lived in Cedar Rapids, Peoria and San Diego growing up. The Midwest and Southern California couldn't be any more different. If you can deal with the Winters and you're involved in a high paying career, Peoria would be real sweet. GO LIONS!!!

I miss the Dungeon..went to so many concerts there can hardly remember them all..got to buy Chester Bennington a Budweiser there when Linkin Park opened for Papa Roach

It isn't likely, The Republican local government is transitioning to democrat socialist and with it will come higher taxes and even less opportunity for growth.

I was going to but there was construction when I came through

Always look forward to that coming home for a visit...

This was shot while the Murray Baker Bridge was undergoing it's rebuild a couple of years ago. It sucked for everyone

I always came into Peoria from the east on US 24. I was always cool to come over the rise over IL 116 and boom there was Downtown Peoria in the distance

Bye-bye Felicia!

@@prairiedoggy1 because of people like you

Bye 👋

Same

He doesn't live on Peoria he lives in Kingston mines and can you blame him

Sorry about that

S @@jw1741 😂

I’m so sorry for your loss

Do you like it in Peoria? Considering moving there. Interested in your pros and cons.

@@zerosashes it’s all about what you make of it and what your looking for. Mid size city with some nice surrounding areas though, pretty good food around this time you can find a lot to do too!

I haven’t lost a tire to the potholes yet, but they have fucked up my truck’s alignment...

Lost 2 tires and a gas tank last yr

@@conservativehippie9736 you must be a horrible driver

As a resident of Peoria all my life, I can help to answer a few of these questions to the best of my abilities. For biking infrastructure, there isn’t really much by the way of bike trails/bike lanes in Downtown. The only notable trail in the Peoria Area is the Rock Island Trail. For train stations, no passenger train stations are in the Peoria Area. The closest Amtrak stations to Peoria are in Galesburg and Bloomington. Peoria does have a fairly decent-sized freight network, with two large rail yards in East Peoria, and a freight line running along the waterfront in Downtown Peoria. For commuter rails, no commuter rails are present in Peoria. Public transportation is operated solely by bus/shuttle, and taxi/Uber. Interstate 74 serves as the main thoroughfare through the city, while Interstate 474 serves as the bypass for trucks and travelers. Illinois Route 6 serves as the main freeway for the northern suburbs. Interstate 74 was overhauled in 2005 to modernize the freeway by adding additional lanes, new exits, new interchanges, and deleting sharp turns and left exits in the Downtown area. This project was was known as the ‘Upgrade 74’ project. In 2020, the Murray Baker Bridge, aka the I-74 Bridge, was shut down for 7 months between March and October for rehabilitation. The rehabilitation included replacing the aging bridge deck along with the aging steel support beams, repainting the bridge, and adding new LED lighting. Other improvements that came with this project included matrix boards, 2 in Peoria, 2 in East Peoria along the freeway, ramp meters at the Jefferson St. on-ramp to regulate the flow of traffic entering the freeway. and flashing caution lights at the Adams St. off-ramp to better warn drivers of wrong way travel, a sign was also added in East Peoria with caution lights to warn drivers of potentially slow or stopped traffic ahead on the bridge at Adams St. exit (Exit 93). Illinois Route 6, while being fairly short at only 10 miles in length, draws more traffic that a rural highway due to it passing through the developing north and northwest edge of Peoria. The freeway ends in an abandoned spur near Chillicothe at Exit 9. It is unclear where the freeway was supposed to go, but several studies have been made to try and continue the freeway. One plan in to turn IL 6 into a loop by extending the freeway back over the Illinois River and reconnecting it with Interstate 74, thus creating a beltway for the city of Peoria. Another plan is to continue the freeway north and have it connect to a new interchange in Chillicothe, connecting it with a proposed Illinois Route 29 expressway which would continue north to Interstate 180. Interstate 474 has not changed much over the years. It is planned to have a connection to the proposed Peoria to Macomb expressway, aka Illinois Route 336. Such proof of a connection already exists with a spur traveling to the west at I-474 mile post 3. Exits at this interchange are signed with letter suffixes as Exits 3A. Since the proposed expressway has not been built yet, the 3B exits do not exist. On the northern end of the Peoria Area, the McClugage Bridges which carry US Route 150 over the Illinois River, are in the process of having the eastbound bridge replaced. Construction has already begun on the new bridge and is expected to be complete by 2023. Once complete, the old eastbound bridge will be destroyed. The new eastbound bridge will carry 3 lanes of traffic vs 2 lanes on the old bridge. It will also have a multi-use pedestrian path as well as a viewing deck at the middle of the bridge overlooking the river.

@@wtlf1026 awesome. I was born and raised in Peoria and my favorite upgrade hands down is downtown and the Riverfront. I love it. I wish it would’ve happened when I was growing up there. There was literally nothing down there when I was a kid. Born in 1967. So I remember the old Peoria.

I lived in Peoria during my self-deluded period of becoming an electric engineer. (Bradley University). I have good and bad memories, including the Italian math professor who was incomprehensibly teaching differential equations with a terrible Italian accent. :). Anyway, I have to thank Chris for this video. TBH, unlike Detroit, it seems some midwestern cities are actually BETTER than they once were. Downtown looks sleepy, but is clean and attractive and the City didn't destroy its urban fabric as grossly as my hometown (Fort Wayne) did. Still remember Grandview Drive and the amazing houses near Bradley on Moss Avenue. I was there decades ago during the nadir of Saint Ronnie Raygun's depression, so I guess it would have to be better than 1984! :)

@benjamin ramsey You clearly missed the fact that this is all satire.

@benjamin ramsey yeah they do lol

@@kumd needs some work ☮

Do you like it in Peoria? Considering moving there. Interested in your pros and cons.

Yep

It's turning into a mini Chicago unfortunately.

Yeah Mini shitcago. S******* City in a s******* state.

It reminds me more of a mini atlanta

The bridge was closed from that direction all you would have seen was construction left and right

twistedangel730 oh I’ll be back don’t worry. Whenever my focus changes to Missouri I’ll get Farmington and Park Hills. I already have all of the decent sized towns right off of I-55 filmed in Missouri in that area so I’ll have time for those two when I focus on Missouri.

Not anymore

Kiss that goodbye

Peoria is still pretty good just avoid the south end

@@mariomario9209 Are where the twin towers located a safe area. The condos look nice there.

I live like 15 minutes away there is some places in peoria you should stay away from it can be dangerous

@@urdad9724 A lot of cities have their dangerous areas. I've driven through Skid Row in Los Angeles and have walked on streets adjacent to it; that is the worst area I've personally visited, and I would not go back there after dark. It's hard to imagine that Peoria could be this bad, but I could be wrong. It's a strange area - the north side of 3rd Street is technically in Little Tokyo and isn't too bad, but the south side of the same street looks significantly worse. However, Skid Row is starting to gentrify somewhat, so it might not be so bad in the future, but I worry about what will happen to the people who live there now - they have to go somewhere, and nobody wants them. I've also spent some time in southeast San Diego for work; that is a place where I've seen bars on the windows on the upper level of a house - not a good sign. There is a Jamaican restaurant in that neighborhood that gets good reviews; even bad areas have their good points. I'll have to try it one day, but at lunch time - not after dark. In southern California, it isn't unusual to encounter patchworks of good and bad areas - a good neighborhood might be right next to a horrible one, and people who don't know the region can easily find themselves in a place where they shouldn't be. Another video from Nostalgia Tours went through a bad area of Peoria, so it gives me an idea of a part of the city where it pays to be careful. Usually, bad areas seem to be at least somewhat safe to drive through during the day (with a reliable car that won't break down), but it is best to avoid them at night. If I manage to visit Peoria one day, I'll stick to the better areas since I don't know the city. Southern California is familiar to me, so I'm more comfortable exploring sketchy areas here, but in other parts of the country, I don't know the culture so well and don't necessarily know what to expect, so I'll be a lot more careful. Downtown Peoria looks nice. After the virus has run its course and concerts resume, I would like to check out the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, which is a well respected orchestra with a long history. Also, the local museum looks like it would be worth a visit. If I don't stray too far from these activities, I'm sure I will be fine. After seeing some of the other videos, Bloomington/Normal and Urbana/Champaign look even better to me. I like college towns, and these look like good ones to visit. I think a road trip to Illinois would be a good vacation after the virus has subsided.

@@heatherharrison264 it's not bad at all. Their is one area on the south end to stay away from. The rest is great

@@SCOTTFREE226 just because it is exaggerated does not mean there is not parts of the place to stay clear of

@@heatherharrison264 You should check out the video channel from CharlieBo313. He's an African American gentleman who cruises in his aging product of the Golden Age of Detroit through some of the sketchiest ghettos in the United States. He doesn't provide the running commentary or the stats but geez...he is BRAVE. Probably the worst area he has visited (except for abandoned Detroit) was the Kensington district in Philadelphia. Imagine the Chicago El tracks completely taken over by meth and opiate addicts and prostitution. horrible, horrible area

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JoJo Dancer was filmed there and it flopped big time

Are where the twin towers a safe area. The condos are nice there

YES I LOVE PEORIA!🖤❤️

It was voted the best city in Illinois to live by U.S. News & World report

Fangerous? That sounds horrible!!!

@@jesuguru2394 fuckin dangerous it is horrible

Excellent point...especially at night

He didn't even drive down Water St. 🤔

One day

Appreciate that! I’ll do my best.

Do you like it in Peoria? Considering moving there. Interested in your pros and cons.

@@zerosashes Don’t move to Illinois. It’s a liberal cesspool that will never get out of the hole it’s in.

Dunlap is where all the growth is. Morton and Washington are also highly rated.

Did the neighborhood get to bad to stay?

I believe Komatsu was originally known as WABCO before Komatsu purchased it.

@@berniemarkley before Komatsu it was Dresser, then Komatsu but before them and Wabco it was Letouneau

@@berniemarkley yes wabco but before Komatsu it was Dresser and before that Letournea

Thanks for that. Had no idea it had been through so many hands since Wabco. I met Lewis Burger, who was president of Wabco, and was on the Bradley Board of Trustees when I was a student at Bradley(75-79). He was an extremely nice gentleman!

Aurora is part of the chicago metro

That's sketchiest part of city nowadays

That's where I live, it's a shithole man

He wanted to make it home

OSF and Methodist

@@NathanH83 thank you so much

Yep, coming around that curve on the East Peoria side of 74 and seeing the skyline is awesome..

Yeah Warehouse District will remain a work in progress. It's got some pretty solid spots already. Zion Coffee, Ardor Bakery to name a few.

I liked Downtown Peoria, the area around Bradley and I thought that much of the northern and eastern parts of Peoria were fine. There are definitely some trashy areas of the city though. But that’s usually the case. Most people don’t know how their city measures up in comparison to other places until they go out and see (or live in) other places themselves.

Nostalgia Tours yea DC is a little better lol

Do you like it in Peoria? Since you want to go back. I’m Considering moving there. Interested in your pros and cons.

@@zerosashes pros: cheap Slow pace of living (compared to big cities) No traffic, easy to commute anywhere you want to go Cons: Horrible laws (well Illinois in general) no 2A Taxes Crime ridden in half the city The area is great, move to a smaller town around peoria

Yes and I’m gonna try to have 5 next week too

Nostalgia Tours Most of not all of the videos you gonna do this week is Illinois related videos

Yup

I was born and raised there but moved away 8 years ago. Taxes are so high it's crazy.. won't move back but love to go home and visit.

I'm not Mexican but I agree lol

Do you like it in Peoria? Considering moving there. Interested in your pros and cons.

Do you like it in Peoria? Considering moving there. Interested in your pros and cons.

When can I visit. I'm in chi..

Do you like it in Peoria? Considering moving there. Interested in your pros and cons.

Is it a good place?

Lol if he would’ve drove a little pass the towers you would’ve saw it it’s literally right by the towers

the ORIGINAL big al's was on main street a block from the pere marquette now it's on jefferson or adams. can't remember which. but i BELIEVE it's 2 blocks towards the river then a block to the right from the old location, which i guess would make it jefferson.

@@davidburton3447 you’re correct that was yearssss ago I’ve been here my whole life

@@davidburton3447 it was a strip of clubs on Main Street back then

my dad went there too

Was thinking of buying a fixer upper house there, and I was worried about the airplane noise.😂

Open air Kroger

I remember aunt Alice

This was filmed during the pandemic