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Podcast #9 – Peoria: Whiskey Capital of the World

Posted on 27. Jun, 2009 by ATLAS.

Some would like to forget that it was distilleries and breweries that made Peoria a boom town where fortunes were made almost overnight. Peoria once produced more whiskey than any city in history. The whiskey tax that Peoria paid to the federal government was larger than any other district in the United States, ahead of Chicago and Cincinnati.

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