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Peoria, IL vs St. Joseph, IL

#36 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Mid-Size Metro Areas)

#51 2005 Best Places to Live

#260 Best Green Cities

#10 Best Green Cities

#33 2005 Best Places to Live

#44 Most Competitive Public Colleges

#58 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#109 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (117 Smallest Metro Areas)

In my opinion Peoria is a great city and for it’s size it has a lot of amenities a big city would have such as a ballpark, civic center, many educational options, great  More

Crime is rampant and you can't even visit parks anymore without fear of some gang drive-by.  More

I lived in Peoria for nearly three years for work and I miss it terribly. The Peoria metropolitan area is by far one of the most underrated in the country. I think what  More

St. Joe is an excellent bedroom community to Champaign Urbana. The local grocery store and restaurants and shops are few but sufficient and Urbana is just 8 miles way.   More

I do not know what the difference is in St.Joseph and St.Joseph township, but i lived there back from 1975 until the spring of 1979. I have good memories there of the  More