long, american history television is joining partners to talk about p aurea. at thatnue our look history. >> p aurea is a good bellwether. cross-section of the country. andave manufacturing midwestern people with good judgment. the people are a good reflection of people who work hard and love the country. reflecttributes kind of p or you. i am proud of the district and it has a rich history -- history. he represented nine counties during his one term in the house of u.s. representatives to 1849. those are in my congressional district today, so i am proud to tell people i represent the district abraham lincoln represented the one term in congress. doesn't get any richer than that in terms of history. bob michaels server 38 years in this seat. he was a house minority leader for 12 of those years, fought in world war ii, served under ronald reagan or eight years and then four years with george w. bush. ronald reagan, who spent obviously his life growing up in illinois, he lived -- there is a great book that talks about the seven homes he lived in. he was born int

aurea is a very good town for him to try a trial balloon, so he would have gone to -- of course peoria is smaller in the yet to be strong in the 20s, a very strong community so we would not waste a lot of time. with all his marbles in st. louis, all his contacts were there so if he didn't plan out his pitch to st. louis, he could have dashed all hopes and his best hopes were in st. louis. so that engineering mind that he had, he wanted to do a trial run peoria would have been a great city to try but we can't blame peoria. in six weeks before when he was out for sponsorship. they'll buy this plane twice on his way between peoria and chicago. anyone knowing that would think if he can make it 150 miles between peoria and chicago how are you going to make it over the atlantic so could have been a matter of a great idea but the wrong guy. plus lindbergh had a nickname from his barnstormed days, and daredevil lindy. obviously he did go to st. louis and did flight successfully over the atlantic but given that st. louis certainly profited with the airline industry and the airline airplane manu

there is a hamilton boulevard in p aurea.rth side of the p aurea county courthouse today. ands can influence people people can influence towns. these historical figures came to peoria and made their mark. when you take somebody like charles lindbergh who was just a boy flying airmail. people knew him only because he would stop and because of the weather he could not go off, so if they lived near the airport, they would feed him lunch. a year later they were reading about how he landed in paris and they hero charles lindbergh. their can come and make mark and have an influence in the city, so i wanted people to read those stories because -- and never more than i thought. a town like this, which has a great history, it is the second -- the largest city on the illinois river. one time it was the second-largest city in the state. with the resource of the city at that time and the whiskey that was being made here and now caterpillar is a big industry here. it has a very rich history, so i knew there were stories built in and there

pay aurea, illinois. is often viewed as a place where you can gauge americans views on marketing and strategy. feature the town. here's a preview. >> those who know the history of pr area will remember several things. iserpillar tractor company the big 20th-century employer here. prior to prohibition most people know that this was the whiskey capital of the world. details not know the but they know that whiskey was king in the 1800s and early 1900s. the heyday was essentially 1880's to 1920. the distilleries lined the illinois river from where the post office is just south of downtown all the way to this suburb called burtonsville. there were 73 distilleries and nine breweries. not all at the same time. our city tour continues in pay aurea illinois this weekend. you can check them all out at c-span.org. whiskey capital of the world. you are watching and listening to washington journal on sunday morning. we will take a short break. terry o'neill will be joining us and later newt gingrich on this sunday mor

ago to 5000 years ago, and you see a great representation here on the wall of an item called the p aurean. unfortunately, the actual falcon is in chicago right now for it is a copper headdress about this yard -- this large that was unaware earthed. the best theory is that it was part of a headdress because of where it was found and the burial materials that it was included in. i'll see what it indians in the mississippian culture that followed them were wonderful farmers, and to make use of the crop that you cultivate, you have to be able to store them. this is where pottery comes into the picture. both of those groups made traditionpottery, a that continues today, and you can see examples of the pottery in the exhibit as well. what we are looking at here is a representation of the illinois waterway. really steps in the river. from the elevation of lake michigan down to where it meets the mississippi river, there is a 160 foot drop. in order to make it easier for large ships to travel to illinois, a series of locks were built in the 1900's. in the 1840's, they were growing cities but the

announcer: on american history tv, p aurea historians talk about its history as the whiskey capital of the world. >> it was primarily because of the quality of the water. filtered ins essence through limestone and that was perfect for distilling announcer: we'll visit the usda center where in 19 41 scientists discovered out a mass produce penicillin credited for saving thousands of allied lives during world war ii. announcer: republican congressman joe heck and former state attorney general catherine cortez master are on the ballot to fill the seat soon-to-be vacated by minority leader harry reid, who is retiring -- republican congressman joe heck and former state attorney general catherine cortez masto. tonight, the candidates to part in an hour-long debate. >> live from las vegas, this is the 2016 senatorial debate. , ths the 2016 senatorial debate. >> tonight, we are live at canyon springs high school in north las vegas for the first and only senatorial debate in nevada. good evening and welcome. in a moment, your candidates will face off. republican congressman joe heck and democra