Peoria is the county seat of Peoria County,Illinois,United States,and the largest city on the Illinois River. As of the 2020 census,the city had a population of 113,150. It is the principal city of the Peoria Metropolitan Area in Central Illinois,consisting of the counties of Fulton,Marshall,Peoria,Stark,Tazewell,and Woodford,which had a population of 402,391 in 2020.
Francis Lazarro Rizzo was an American police officer and politician. He served as Philadelphia police commissioner from 1968 to 1971 and mayor of Philadelphia from 1972 to 1980. He was a member of the Democratic Party throughout the entirety of his career in public office. However,he later switched to the Republican Party in 1986 and campaigned as a Republican for the final five years of his life.
Billy G. Mills is a retired Los Angeles Superior Court judge and a former Los Angeles City Council member,serving from 1963 to 1974. He was one of the first three African-Americans elected to the council.
Mark Clark was an American activist and member of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was killed with Fred Hampton during a Chicago police predawn raid on December 4,1969.
William Mark Peduto is an American politician who was the 60th mayor of Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania from 2014 until 2022. He was a Democratic member of the Pittsburgh City Council from 2002 to 2014.
Aaron Jon Schock is an American former politician who was Republican U.S. Representative for Illinois's 18th congressional district from 2009 until 2015. The district is based in Peoria and includes part of Springfield. He was the first member of the U.S. Congress born in the 1980s;when he took his seat in 2009 he was the youngest member of Congress,at age 27. Previously,Schock had served two terms in the Illinois House of Representatives,also as its youngest member.
Brian Zachary France is an American businessman and the former CEO and chairman of NASCAR. He served in the post from 2003 to 2018,following his grandfather Bill France Sr. and father Bill Jr.,in the executive position. In 2019,France founded Silver Falcon Capital,Inc. and became CEO of the private investing firm.
The 1999 Philadelphia mayoral election saw the narrow election of Democrat John F. Street.
Academy of Our Lady and Spalding Institute were Catholic high schools across the street from each other in downtown Peoria,Illinois.
Joel Burns is an American politician. A city councilman for District 9 in Fort Worth,Texas,he received extensive press attention in October 2010 after speaking at a council meeting about the issue of suicide among lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender youth,as part of Dan Savage's It Gets Better campaign.
Darin McKay LaHood is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Illinois's 18th congressional district since 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he was the member of the Illinois Senate from the seven-county 37th legislative district from 2011 to 2015. He was elected to Congress in a special election after Aaron Schock resigned.
Jeffrey Roorda is an American politician. He was a Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives,serving from 2005 to 2010 and again from 2013 to 2015. Roorda ran for the Missouri Senate in District 22 in 2014,but he was defeated by Paul Wieland,a Republican from Imperial. A former police officer,he is also the executive director and business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association (SLPOA). SLPOA is Lodge #68 of the Fraternal Order of Police,covering the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD).
George P. Shadid was an American Democratic politician. He was sheriff of Peoria County,Illinois from 1976 to 1993 and was in the Illinois State Senate from 1993 until 2006.
The 2015 Salt Lake City mayoral election took place on November 3,2015,to elect the Mayor of Salt Lake City,Utah. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections,and was officially nonpartisan.
The 2018 Illinois gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the Governor of Illinois,concurrently with the 2018 Illinois general election and other midterm elections. Incumbent Republican Governor Bruce Rauner ran for re-election to a second term in office,but was defeated by Democratic nominee J. B. Pritzker.
Ryan Spain is a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives,representing the 73rd district which includes Bureau,Marshall,Peoria,Stark and Woodford counties in west central Illinois.
The 2018–19 Phoenix mayoral special election was held to elect the new Mayor of Phoenix,Arizona. The election was officially nonpartisan;candidates ran on the same ballot. In the initial round of the election,since no candidate reached 50 percent plus one vote,a runoff election was held between the top two finishers.
John Valdivia,is an American politician serving as the 29th and current mayor of San Bernardino,California. John Valdivia defeated incumbent R. Carey Davis in a runoff election on November 6,2018,with a 6% margin. A former member of the San Bernardino City Council,Valdivia served as the Councilman for the third ward from March 2012 to December 2018,and served as Mayor Pro-Tem for the City of San Bernardino from 2016 to 2017. In 2021,Valdivia became the first elected official in 20 years to be censured by the San Bernardino City Council for alleged misuse of public funds.
Rita Ali is an American politician serving as the 47th mayor of Peoria,Illinois since 2021. She was elected on April 21,2021,finishing just 43 votes ahead of her opponent,councilman Jim Montelongo. Ali was sworn in two weeks later on May 4,becoming both the first woman and the first African American to serve as mayor of Peoria. She has previously served on the Peoria City Council and has held a position as Vice President of Workforce and Diversity at Illinois Central College.
The Atlanta Eagle police raid was a police raid targeting the Atlanta Eagle,a gay bar in Atlanta,Georgia,United States. The raid occurred on September 10,2009,due to anonymous tips alleging that illegal drug use and sex was occurring at the bar. Several dozen officers were involved in the raid,including members of the Atlanta Police Department's vice squad and the "Red Dog Unit",a SWAT-like unit typically used in high drug use areas. None of the 62 bar patrons that night were arrested,although eight employees were. Seven of these employees were either found not guilty or had charges dropped against them,while one was not present at the trials and had a bench warrant issued against him.
