Illinois
LaSalle County
Peru Township

Peru

Peru is a city in and counties, Illinois, United States. The population was 9,896 at the 2020 census, down from 10,295 at the 2010 census.
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  • Type: Town with 9,830 residents
  • Description: city in Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Peru, IL” and “Peru, Illinois”
  • Postal code: 61354

Places of Interest

Highlights include Illinois Valley Regional Airport-Walter A Duncan Field and La Salle-Peru Township High School.

Aerodrome
Illinois Valley Regional Airport, also known as Walter A. Duncan Field, is a city-owned, public-use located 1 nautical mile northwest of the central business district of Peru, a city in , , . is situated 2 miles northwest of Peru.

School
LaSalle-Peru Township High School, also known as LaSalle-Peru High School, LPHS, or simply L-P, is a public four-year high school located at 541 Chartres Street in LaSalle, Illinois, a city in , in the .

College
Saint Bede Academy is a private, four-year, Catholic college-preparatory high school located in Peru, Illinois. The campus buildings and monastery are situated on 800 acres of wooded land. is situated 2 miles west of Peru.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include LaSalle-Peru and La Salle.

Peru and LaSalle are adjacent towns in .

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
or LaSalle is a city in , United States, located at the intersection of Interstates 39 and 80. It is part of the Ottawa, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area. is situated 2 miles east of Peru.

Hamlet
is a village in and counties in the U.S. state of . The population was 663 at the 2020 census, down from 717 at the 2010 census. is situated 3 miles northwest of Peru.

Peru

Latitude
41.32729° or 41° 19′ 38″ north
Longitude
-89.12876° or 89° 7′ 44″ west
Population
9,830
Elevation
600 feet (183 metres)
IATA airport code
VYS
United Nations Location Code
US VYS
Open location code
86HG8VGC+WF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153754270
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4905770
Wiki­data ID
Q576648
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Peru” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيرو”
  • Armenian: “Պերու”
  • Basque: “Peru”
  • Bengali: “পেরু”
  • Catalan: “Peru”
  • Cebuano: “Peru”
  • Chechen: “Перу”
  • Chinese: “Peru”
  • Chinese: “珀魯”
  • Chinese: “珀鲁”
  • Croatian: “Peru”
  • Czech: “Peru”
  • Danish: “Peru”
  • Dutch: “Peru”
  • Finnish: “Peru”
  • French: “Peru”
  • German: “Peru”
  • Gilaki: “پرو”
  • Greek: “Περού”
  • Gujarati: “પેરુ”
  • Haitian: “Peru, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “Peru”
  • Hindi: “पेरू”
  • Ido: “Peru, Illinois”
  • Ido: “Peru”
  • Indonesian: “Peru”
  • Irish: “Peru”
  • Italian: “Peru”
  • Japanese: “ペルー”
  • Kannada: “ಪೆರು”
  • Korean: “페루”
  • Ladin: “Peru”
  • Latvian: “Peru”
  • Lithuanian: “Peru”
  • Malay: “Peru”
  • Marathi: “पेरु”
  • Mazanderani: “پرو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Peru”
  • Nigerian Pidgin: “Peru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Peru”
  • Persian: “پرو، ایلینوی”
  • Persian: “پرو”
  • Polish: “Peru”
  • Portuguese: “Peru”
  • Russian: “Перу”
  • Serbian: “Перу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Peru, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Peru”
  • Sinhala: “පේරු”
  • Slovak: “Peru”
  • Slovenian: “Peru”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرو، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “Peru (Illinois)”
  • Spanish: “Peru”
  • Swedish: “Peru, Illinois”
  • Swedish: “Peru”
  • Tamil: “பெரு”
  • Tatar: “Перу (Иллинойс)”
  • Tatar: “Перу”
  • Telugu: “పెరు”
  • Thai: “เปรู”
  • Turkish: “Peru, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Peru”
  • Ukrainian: “Перу”
  • Urdu: “پیرو، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “پیرو”
  • Uzbek: “Peru”
  • Uzbek: “Перу”
  • Vietnamese: “Peru, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Peru”
  • Volapük: “Peru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Peru, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Peru”
  • Welsh: “Peru, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Peru”
  • “Peru”

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