Originally Posted by
LUC666
389,000 is the population. That's one of the bigger cities in Illinois. Pretty big to us considering I live in Marion with a population of 40,000 people. Firebird is from Sparta with 4,000. But to you it is probably just average. I have been to Peoria a few times and it is a nice town. But, I have never been to the port. It is about four hours from me. We go to Saint Louis if we want to go to the city. It is about 2 hours from me.