PEORIA, Ill. – The Peoria Riverfront Museum’s 75-foot-tall Christmas tree has an interesting backstory.

The tree came from Peoria residents Dan and Kathy Becker’s backyard. It’s the tallest tree yet to be placed on the museum grounds for the holidays.

Kathy Becker says it was quite a process to get the tree downtown, with workers spending quite a bit of time tying the tree down low enough for it to pass under power lines along the way.

“The first line they encountered, it wouldn’t go under. So, there was a gentleman that rode inside that tree all the way downtown…down from Alta Road, down Knoxville, all the way down to the Riverfront Museum,” Becker says.

The 75-foot-tall tree was placed into the museum’s permanent tree stand by another giant crane.

Kathy Becker says they followed the

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