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Peoria has five public golf courses as well as numerous personal and semi-private golf courses. The Peoria Park District, the first and still largest park district in Illinois, was the 2001 Winner of the National Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Parks and Recreation for Class II Parks. Culture [modify] Museums in Peoria include the Pettengill-Morron Home, the John C Flanagan Home of the Peoria Historical Society, and the Wheels o' Time Museum.
The Peoria Art Guild hosts the Annual Art Fair, which is constantly rated as one of the 100 leading art fairs in the country. Three cultural institutions lie in Glen Oak Park. The Peoria Zoo, previously Glen Oak Zoo, was expanded and refurbished recently. Ended up in Keep Checking Back Here , the new zoo improvements more than triple the size of the zoo and feature a major African safari display.
The Peoria Play, House Children's Museum opened in June 2015 in the Glen Oak Structure. [] The Steamboat Classic, held every summer, is the world's largest four-mile (6 km) running race and draws international runners. The Peoria Santa Claus Parade, which began in 1888, is the earliest running vacation parade in the United States.
Carrying out arts [modify] The Peoria Chamber Orchestra is the 14th oldest in the nation. Peoria is also home to the Peoria Municipal Band, the Peoria Area Civic Chorale, the Youth Music Illinois (previously called Central Illinois Youth Symphony), Central Illinois Ballet, and the Peoria Ballet. A number of community and professional theaters have their house in and around Peoria, including the Peoria Players, which is the fourth-oldest community theater in the nation and the oldest in Illinois.
Peoria has hosted the Heart of Illinois Fair every year because 1949. [] The reasonable functions animals competitors, rides, concessions, motor contests and concerts. [] Tourist [edit] Registered historic locations [modify] Peoria is the 153rd largest radio market in the United States [] and Peoria-Bloomington is the 117th biggest television market in the United States. [] The area has 14 commercial radio stations with 6 owners amongst them; four non-commercial full-power radio stations, each individually owned; five industrial tv stations with two operating owners amongst them; one non-commercial television station; and one day-to-day newspaper (). [] NOAA Weather Condition Radio [edit] NOAA Weather Condition Radio station WXJ71 sends from East Peoria and is certified to NOAA's National Weather condition Service Central Illinois Weather Projection Office at Lincoln, relaying on a frequency of 162.