UPDATED 3:47 P.M. 9/19/23
PEORIA, Ill. – If you come into Peoria from the south, you’ll see a brand new sign greeting you.
The city’s Public Works Department says it’s installed a new six feet tall, fourteen feet wide “Welcome to Peoria” sign on Southwest Adams Street, between Oregon and Nevada.
In its words, the city says the sign was designed to “beautify the area and to make one of the busiest entries into the City more welcoming,” according to a news release.
The sign utilizes some colors along with LED back lights.
It cost $27,000, paid for with Tax Increment Financing District money, and officials say more signs will eventually be installed at the city’s other entrances.
The city claims more than 18,000 vehicles pass by the area of the new sign every day.
“We are excited to see Peoria’s newest welcome sign come to completion and be yet another beautiful highlight in our City. Public Works will be ambitious with the expansion of other welcome signs on other City corridors in the coming years.” — Rick Powers, City of Peoria Public Works Director
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