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Local Newspapers

Introduction ...

Below are the newspapers that have been published in the vicinity of West Peoria.

Our newspaper information for West Peoria is based on data taken from the Chronicling America website. For more information, please see our description of the Chronicling America website.

We don't know of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of West Peoria. That said, we do have a list of papers that were published in the broader area surrounding West Peoria. Our list contains 301 papers that were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<1> of West Peoria.

To keep this list from growing too long, not all of the papers have been listed. We have another list where all the papers have been listed in alphabetical order. The complete list can be found on the Extended Newspaper Page for West Peoria.  

Note: The Extended Newspaper Page is quite large and may take extra time to load.

Newspapers Neighboring West Peoria ...

The following newspapers were published within 24 miles [38.6 km] of West Peoria.

The papers have been grouped by the community in which they were published, with the communities listed in order of their distance from West Peoria.

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- West Peoria) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in West Peoria. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.6988, Longitude: -89.6329       In this case, the coordinates for West Peoria have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).