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• 'It was a bad day for Peoria County about 450 million years ago.'

  Nov 14, 2019 12:00 pm by Tiffany Jolley | Prairie Research InstituteExpert Viewpoints
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  'A meteorite bigger than the State Farm Center hit near the present-day Village of Glasford, a little ways southwest of Peoria. It created a 2.5-mile-wide crater that we now call the Glasford structure.'

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