Edwards is an

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Peoria County Peoria County is located in the U.S. state of Illinois. The 2020 United States Census listed its population at 181,830. Its county seat is Peoria. Peoria County is part of the Peoria, IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Peoria County was ...

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, United States. Edwards is located on

Illinois Route 8 Illinois Route 8 (IL 8) is an east–west state route in central Illinois. It runs east from Illinois Route 97 south of Maquon, Illinois, Maquon to the intersection of U.S. Route 24 (McClugage Avenue) and Business U.S. 24 near Washington, ...

northwest of downtown Peoria. Edwards has a

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with ZIP Code 61528; the Post Office is now located on Dubois Road just south of

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exit 82, 2.1 miles (3.4 km) north of the original Edwards.

History

Edwards is in

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19 of Kickapoo Township, and was previously called Edwards Station, as a train station on the Peoria and Galesburg division of the

Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was a railroad that operated in the Midwestern United States. Commonly referred to as the Burlington Route, the Burlington, or as the Q, it operated extensive trackage in the states of Colorado, Illin ...

, originally the Peoria, Oquawka and Burlington Railroad in 1857 when the railroad was completed and the station opened. The first settler, Isaac Jones, died in 1840.

References

Unincorporated communities in Peoria County, Illinois Unincorporated communities in Illinois Peoria metropolitan area, Illinois Populated places established in 1857 1857 establishments in Illinois {{PeoriaCountyIL-geo-stub