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Washington is a city in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. Washington is upon U.S. Route 24 and Illinois Route 8, northeast of East Peoria. The population was 15,134 at the 2010 census, a 39.6 percent increase more than 2000. It is a suburb of Peoria and is allocation of the Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Washington was founded in 1825 by William Holland Sr., who came from North Carolina and was hired by the U.S. government to pay for blacksmith services to the local Native Americans. During his long and eventful animatronics he was married three times, and was the father of twenty-one children: fourteen by his first wife and seven by his second wife. He had eighty-two grandchildren and fifty great grandchildren. He died in Washington on November 27, 1871, at the age of ninety-one. The broadcast office (and higher the city) was originally named Holland’s Grove in 1833 before living thing renamed in rave review of the first U.S. president, George Washington, in 1837.

In the 1920s, a man named George Heyl put Washington upon the map as the home of the famous Heyl Pony Farm. Some of the original barns nevertheless exist upon North Main Street. The Heyl Pony Farm supplied Shetland ponies to buyers almost the world; George Heyl as well as raised fixed idea bred poultry. When Heyl died immediately in 1932, it was recorded as one of the largest funerals ever held in Washington.