About Bradley University

Bradley University is a private university in Peoria, Illinois. Founded in 1897, Bradley University enrolls 5,400 students who are pursuing degrees in greater than 100 undergraduate programs and higher than 30 graduate programs in five colleges. The academe is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and 22 specialized and professional accreditors.

Peoria (/piˈɔːriə/ pee-OR-ee-ə) is the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, and the largest city on the Illinois River. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 115,007. It is the principal city of the Peoria Metropolitan Area in Central Illinois, consisting of the counties of Marshall, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell, and Woodford, which had a population of 373,590 in 2011.

Established in 1691 by the French swashbuckler Henri de Tonti, Peoria was difficult labeled by the Peoria Historical Society to be the oldest European unity in Illinois. Originally known as Fort Clark, it standard its current name past the County of Peoria organized in 1825. The city was named after the Peoria tribe, a member of the Illinois Confederation. On October 16, 1854, Abraham Lincoln made his Peoria speech neighboring the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

A major port on the Illinois River, Peoria is a trading and shipping middle for a large agricultural Place that produces maize, soybeans, and livestock. Although the economy is competently diversified, the city’s expected manufacturing industries remain important and fabricate earthmoving equipment, metal products, lawn-care equipment, labels, steel towers, farm equipment, building materials, steel, wire, and chemicals. Until 2018, Peoria was the global and national headquarters for muggy equipment and engine manufacturer Caterpillar Inc., one of the 30 companies composing the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and listed upon the Fortune 100; in the latter year, the company relocated its headquarters to Deerfield, Illinois.

The city is associated with the phrase “Will it perform Peoria?”, which originated from the vaudeville become old and was popularized by Groucho Marx. Museums in the city append the Pettengill-Morron House, the John C. Flanagan House, and the Peoria Riverfront Museum.