Although Peoria's CW affiliate is on a subchannel of WHOI (19.2-- CW 100+), you could add the Quad Cities (Davenport, IA/Rock Island-Moline, IL) and Peoria/Bloomington to this list. It's roughly about 80 miles on Interstate 74 between the outskirts of Moline and the city limits of Peoria (but probably only about 60 miles "as the crow files" as I-74 is southbound until Galesburg, then curves east-southeast toward Peoria afterwards). In fact, parts of northwestern Peoria County even can receive a Grade A signal from some of the Quad Cities' stations (particularly WQAD-8, both digital and analog), while the Grade B signals for practically all of the QC full-power stations (TV and radio) even reaches Peoria city proper (including the soon-to-be former analog signals of WHBF-4 and KWQC-6, whose analog towers are in Bettendorf, IA), particularly those with sticks near Orion, IL.
Despite Peoria being an all-UHF market while the Quad Cities has had their "Big 3" on all-VHF (4, 6, 8), could a case had been made, say, 50 years ago (before officially becoming the Peoria/Bloomington market with the 1982 sign on of WYZZ-43), to have combined Peoria and Quad Cities into a single market a la Springfield/Decatur/Champaign, IL (particularly considering the similar distance between Springfield and Champaign as opposed to the Quad Cities and Peoria)? This would have been particularly true before the Peoria UHF stations boosted their power and coverage area during the '60s, and when viewers even in parts of rural Peoria County who purchased their first TVs when the first QC stations, WOC-6 (now KWQC and originally channel 5) and WHBF-4 signed on in 1949 and 1950, respectively, might have still relied on watching the QC stations rather than shelling out money for a UHF antenna/converter (you could still see occasional evidence of sets of active or long-defunct home outdoor antennas pointed southeast toward the Peoria stations, and northwest toward the Quad Cities, in parts of rural Peoria County--and I'm sure valiant efforts to try to bring in Chicago stations back in the early TV days).
And also something I've wondered about--I wonder if the Peoria stations in the past have ever raised vehement objections to some of the QC stations placing their transmitters at the Orion transmitter farm (particularly WQAD-8 and the pre-1983 transmitter for WHBF-4, as well as KLJB-18 and WQPT-24, and now KWQC-DT and, YES, even Iowa Public Television station KQIN-DT, all with their towers in Orion and all can bring at least a Grade B signal into the city limits of Peoria).
