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Excerpt from Industrial Resources Survey of Metropolitan Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, Vol. 1 It can be asserted without exaggeration, no city in Illinois or in the entire west can present greater attraction in the way of nature scenery than Peoria This is admitted on all hands, by strangers visiting Peoria and by the inhabitants of rival cities who admit no more than they are actually forced to do. Its advantage as a place of business and home may be gleaned from the following pages. The conditions that motivated this present study are obviously neither unique in terms of time or location. An urban community owes its existence to the fact that it is a center of the production and exchange of goods and services. A con cern with the economic health of a city-the dynamic forces that cause growth was important to early settlers. They are far more important in the complex economic structure today, and as a result of the advances in the science and art of industry as well as medicine, are less dependent on the physiological health of the location. The objectives of this study are little different than those of its predecessors. The first is to provide a documentary background for the promotion of desirable Industrial Development in the area. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.