Suburban Peoria: Creve Coeur, Illinois 4K.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2020
- Creve Coeur, Illinois ain't anything like Creve Coeur, Missouri (One of the nicest St. Louis Suburbs.) In this video, I drive in mad circles around Creve Coeur, and I tell you more about it along the way.
Cedar Street Bridge: 0:47 - 2:00
East Peoria: 1:03 - 2:25
Creve Coeur: 2:25 - 10:45
Fort CreveCoeur (Talking about it): 4:28
East Peoria: 10:45 - 12:08
Creve Coeur: 12:08 - 14:50
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Creve Coeur is where flies go in the winter. Also know as Crevetuckey.
I'm glad you brought up the early French influence here. The Peoria area has a long history and has had a surprising amount of influence on American culture over the years. I've never been there, but I've always been curious about it, as the references are everywhere in older popular culture. For many years, Peoria was a popular test market for new products, and in the earlier part of the 20th century, it had a strong connection to vaudeville. The expression "Will it play in Peoria?" probably originated in vaudeville. When listening to Fibber McGee & Molly, a very popular and excellent radio comedy from the 1930s-1950s, I have noticed that there are occasional references to Peoria. The stars of the show certainly performed there during their vaudeville days. Overall, it looks like a good place, and I think it would be fun to take a vacation for a week or two and check it out. Even with the tax problem in Illinois, the cost of housing is so low that it is probably still an affordable place to live. I live in California, where the cost of housing is exorbitant, and I worry that I won't be able to stay here after I retire. If I can talk myself into putting up with the hot and humid summers, places like Peoria, the Quad Cities, and Bloomington/Normal could be viable options due to the lower cost of living, and they seem like very nice places. These videos make me want to visit the area - after the virus subsides, I'll have to plan a road trip to this part of the country and check it out for myself. Maybe I should visit during the winter - I like snow, and it never snows where I live.
As an aside, when you finally make it to California, you'll find plenty of places to explore. Of course, the coastal cities, such as Los Angeles and San Diego, have a wide variety of neighborhoods, from ghettos to wealthy areas, and you should check them out, but I would also recommend exploring the Central Valley. A trip up Highway 99 to visit cities, such as Bakersfield, Fresno, Madera, Modesto, Stockton, Lodi, Sacramento, Chico, and Redding, would be right up your alley. You will find some nice neighborhoods, a lot of history, and some hoods where you can use the ominous music. These are fascinating places, and they are sadly ignored and mocked by many Californians.
I’ve been to Southern Cali a couple times in the last 3 years or so! Just to the San Diego, LA and the Santa Barbara areas, and that was before I got serious about the TH-cam channel.
If you like Illinois you’ll probably like other places that will have lower taxes like Indiana, Michigan, Iowa or Wisconsin, but if you feel a special connection to Illinois and Peoria there’s nothing wrong with that and I say go for it!
Unfortunately, California's big cities have arrived at a point where the average (even upper middle class) American is tired of the exorbitant cost of living to the point of moving elsewhere. These problems have even begun to extend to Seattle Washington and Portland Oregon. There are countless TH-cam videos of Californians having no choice but to move in order to enjoy life without stresses created there in taxes and mandatory fees gobbling up their incomes while dealing with hoards of homeless people in business districts, telling their regretful but necessary choices and lamenting over the past "good life" of California. "California Dreaming" has very sadly become a nightmare.
That said, I've found Peoria to be an amazing gem. Architecture is my avocation and I was blown away by downtown Peoria. The architecture from nineteenth century, mid 20th century modern to cutting edge modern is amazing! How wonderful it is to see the old is respected and well maintained while adding the well-done latest. There's an air of sophistication in Peoria found mostly in much larger and popular cities that the average person seems not to be seeing here. This, plus much culture and activities such as great minor league sports (hockey and baseball...have to mention the great baseball stadium located downtown), a zoo, museums, fine dining, warehouse district, parks and nature trails are exactly what the well educated young professionals and the urban savvy seek out and Peoria well fits the bill. And, having been in marketing, I'm familiar with the information you've shared in the first paragraph. It all spells out to an amazing city one expects in much larger cities. Now, if only the politicians would wake up to the damage they're doing to Illinois in ridiculously high taxes. I'm blowing my horn for Peoria and I'm not from there or don't (and never have) really live anywhere near there, but did visit once when I was 11 in 1960 with my parents and thought then it was a really "neat" city even back then. That's how much Peoria impresses me!
As far as this video, Creve Coeur appears to be mostly post WW2 to 1960's construction. These homes were built at a time when houses were built to last. Today the majority of typical new suburban housing is thrown together with new growth lumber (termites love it, as per one DIYer I saw on t.v.) and replete with petrochemical materials, all for profit more than anything, and many are architectural messes. Those older homes are ideal for young families to do a little work in bringing them up with a little hammering, paint and landscaping...ever see the program "Home Town"...??? That's what I'm talking about. No reason that can't happen here, with just a few talented people coming together and getting the ball rolling.
I realize it's pretty randomly asking but does anybody know a good site to watch newly released series online ?
In my pre-teen years, I used to visit Vicki my second cousin once removed in Creve Coeur. I hadn't thought of that in years. I had so much fun. One night we turned a jar if lightning bugs loose in her bedroom to enjoy while in bed. All I remember was finding a room full of dead lightning bugs in the morning. I was also intriduced to the cuisine known as peanut butter and banana sandwiches. I wish I knew where she was now. Thank you for giving me a chance to remember those days.
My grandma livednin East Peoria and threw her neighborhood could drive into Creve Coeur and i remember one thing about that place, Davis Brothers Pizza, Soooo Goooood!
I met my wife at the world famous
JJ's RIVER CITY LANDING owned by Perilla in 1986. Lived at that bar 6 nights a week... Did laundry on Mondays.
Please show nice neighborhood drive of south suburban St.Louis ,keep doing what you are doing 👍
Most of my upcoming videos will be in the St. Louis area
Crevetucky born and raised!
I think you went down Peking Avenue hill in East Peoria if that was Pekin Avenue hill I used to walk that hill hundreds of times back in the 60s, are used to live at 109 Jefferson Court
My mother was raised in Creve Coeur Illinois
you drove right by my house haha to bad i wasn't outside
Saw my house too :D :D :D
I don't believe you forgot Wesley Road !
I used to live in that blue house
You just made a right...where ya going 😲😎
Home sweet home Creve tucky
One other thing Creve Coeur has going for it- the bars can stay open til 4am! One thing I miss living in Arizona.
Oh jeez Andy lol!
Oh yes! Picked up many a drunk chicks at the Creve Coeur bars!
does anyone know where 0:28 is
I like Creve Coeur. Have rented there a couple times because of the cheap rent. Have made some great friends there over the years. It's no more prejudice than any of the other towns on this side of the river.
How far are stores like Costco, Walmart, Aldis
@@venusdemilo3378 Five minutes or less in East Peoria. All three you have mentioned.
@@DJDaddy-O Thank you for telling me.
Broken Heart, Illinois
If you pause it @5:18 you can see all the weeds in my fire pit
Watch out for Creve Coeur cops they'll find no reason to stop you and hassle you ,I lived their 16 years moved out in 1976 to east peoria .
Hell yes they do!
@@jasoneffler9903 ep seemed worse back in 80's atleast
One year creve coeur was 3rd in DUI’s in the state of Illinois
@@frankcox1840 it's because their bars are open till 4AM.
@@banditdarval9401 I know, I grew up in Creve Coeur
Why are you saying that Pekin and Creve Coeur are suburbs of Peoria? Pekin is in Tazwell County and on the other side of the river Ive lived in Pekin my whole life and never heard these two towns referred to as Suburbs of any city
Read up.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria_metropolitan_area,_Illinois
Creve Coeur is at least right next to East Peoria which is just across the river from Peoria, so I can see the idea of it being a Peoria “suburb”. Pekin however is definitely far enough away to be considered a separate town/city. Don’t care what Wikipedia says, no one who actually lives in this area would consider Pekin to be a Peoria “suburb”! I also looked over the Wikipedia reference you provided and nowhere did I find Pekin (or Creve Coeur) referred to as a Peoria “suburb”. The dictionary definition of suburb is a town “adjacent to” or “within commuting distance of” a larger city. Pekin is clearly not “adjacent to” Peoria. It is within commuting distance I’ll give you that. Problem with the “commuting distance” definition is that so are a ton of other places. I live in Bloomington and used to commute to Peoria for work. I know others who do the same. So is Bloomington a Peoria suburb? No? Then what about Eureka? It’s midway between Bloomington and Peoria. Where do you stop or draw the line? I think an ACTUAL suburb needs to be physically adjacent... Sort of like the Chicago burbs where you can drive from Chicago to Evergreen Park to Oak Lawn to Chicago Ridge to Worth to Palos Heights to Tinley Park and they are all connected and right up adjacent to each other. I do enjoy your tours but I thought your response telling Tim (a local) to “Read up” was rather rude. I 100% agree with Tim, nobody who actually lives here considers Pekin a “suburb” of Peoria.
@@PMCraig he has a video all about Pekin and in the title say Pekin is a suburb WTF lol I have asked several people including the mayor and the other local officials and they say the same thing not true lol Wikipedia is not a good site for true information it has in recent years become allowed as a reference in essay writing but still considered not reliable thank you for your comment that was so good to read.
@@PMCraig ❄
I live there & consider those towns to be a suburb of Peoria 🤷♀️
@@PMCraig The river is the only thing that separates nonstop residential or business areas from each other. East Peoria is bordered to Marquette Heights then North Pekin, then Pekin with no separation between them. So yes, it is a suburb otherwise it wouldn't be included in the Peoria metropolitan population. There isn't a Pekin metropolitan population because Pekin is suburb of Peoria. It literally would be connected to Peoria with continuous border to border towns if there was no river.
Fast forward to ..Aug.2023 ...
Gas is .....$3.99 a gal in Creve Coeur ...not $2.27 WOW. 2 YEARS went from BOOM to BUST
Something you may want to look into while doing informational “tours” of the Creve Coeur and Pekin area is their connections and backgrounds with the KKK. It is still an issue to this day, they were just sending letters to people and tossing flyers around town and in East Peoria in the summer of 2020.
Not an ideal place to raise a family, cheap or not.
Not to mention they are known in the area for their production of meth, canton is known for crack. 🤦🏻♀️ people can say what they want about Peoria but I feel safer there than in the very racist “suburbs”.
I was born and raised here, so was my whole family and I have NEVER heard such things. Yeah, we have a few unfair people but so does every town. Its actually quite friendly and quiet here.
Pekin also has the most child molestors in any town anywhere near us, including Peoria. It's an insane amount
still more safe than the black neighborhoods of peoria, try walking those streets at night and tell me which side is worse
White liberals are the funniest. She feels safer being in an area where she can catch a stray bullet then she does with someone handing out racist literature. Lmao. Newsflash Honey, there is racist people everywhere, even on other side of river, there is people there who will harm you just for being white, but forgot white liberals don't think Black People can be racist..lol..how naive and foolish y'all be
The KKK doesn't exist anymore, just some wanna bes
"peor" means "worst" in spanish
Locals have called this town "Crevetucky" for years. That's not a good thing 😉
@@j.bradley2859 so why do they call Creve Coeur Crevetucky ?
@@jodimcdaniel1143 Idk really. I've lived in the area 40yrs and most people call it that. It's a different place to live.
@@j.bradley2859 ah I see I was just curious
@@j.bradley2859 I prefer "Creve Sewer" I posted a longer comment above of my 6 years I lived in this place. It's a bunch of stereotypical southern hillbillies is why it's call Creve Tucky.
Great video but I don't like the music
I like it 😁