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A fire in Iloilo City on February 7, 1966 destroyed nearly three quarters of the City Proper area, the central business district, of Iloilo City in the Philippines. It is the single most devastating fire in the city's history.The 12-hour-long fire began at a lumberyard on Iznart Street then spread across Quezon and Valeria streets. The fire trucks of the government, the now-Bureau of Fire Protection, were ill-equipped to fight the fire because they had to travel 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) to Jaro, Iloilo City to fill their water tanks.After the fire, commercial activity returned to the area with many of surviving concrete commercial buildings being rebuilt, but the area was left with fewer residents since many homes were replaced by commercial structures. Some survivors were relocated to the district of La Paz in Iloilo City. Among the commercial buildings impacted was the Majestic Theater, which was rebuilt. New commercial landmarks constructed include the Marymart Center, a shopping mall, and the new Iloilo branch of the Philippine National Bank. In the aftermath of the fire, the Iloilo Filipino Chinese Fire Prevention Association Incorporated was established. It is now known as Federation Iloilo Volunteer Fire Brigade. It is one of the two private volunteer fire departments, though they include some part-time on-call firefighters.

SM Delgado is a department store owned by SM Land Inc. and operated by Metro Manila Shopping Mecca Corporation, the same arm of the SM Group that operate the branches at SM City Manila and SM City Santa Rosa. It is the oldest SM branch outside Metro Manila. It is located within Iloilo City's commercial district along Delgado and Valeria Streets. It first opened in May 1979 and was relaunched in December 2004. It is the forth SM Department Store built by Henry Sy Sr. and the first branch opened outside Metro Manila. SM Supermarket was conceptualized and opened its store at SM Delgado in 1985. The mall was relaunched in 2004.

Iloilo City Proper (City Proper) (also locally known as Downtown, Ciudad, Iloilo Poblacion, or simply Iloílo) is one of the seven districts of Iloilo City in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It is the second-most densely populated district, after Molo. The City Proper has a population of 46,350 residents as of the 2020 census. It is known as the heart of Iloilo, as it is the seat of the city and provincial government, as well as other local, provincial, and regional government offices. The district is also home to the majority of the city's financial institutions, where banks and other firms can be found on every corner of the streets. Iloilo City Proper is the current economic and financial center of Iloilo. The City Proper received its present name from the province's original Irong-Irong reference. It was founded as La Punta and inhabited in 1602 when Spanish and Chinese residents from Jaro and Molo expanded their territorial area. During its heyday, it was called Yloylo or Iloilo. In current modern times, old 19th and 20th-century buildings can still be found across the district, particularly along the entire street of J.M. Basa, popularly known as Calle Real.

Saint Paul University Iloilo, also referred to as SPU Iloilo, St. Paul, St. Paul's or by its acronym SPUI, is a private Catholic basic and higher education institution run by the Philippine Province of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres in Iloilo City, Iloilo, Philippines. It is one of the six campuses comprising the Saint Paul University System. It was founded in 1946 by the Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres from France with the help of American Catholics. It presently offers academic programs in basic education, tertiary and post-graduate studies in the fields of information technology, teacher education, business, accountancy, liberal studies, nursing, and physical therapy. At present though SPUI form part of the Saint Paul University System, it remains distinctively independent with its own administration.

Assumption Iloilo (also known as AC or Assumption Convent) is a private Catholic coeducational basic education institution run by the Sisters of the Religious of the Assumption in Iloilo City, Philippines. It was founded by the Assumption Sisters in 1910. It offers preschool, grade school, and high school education for males and females.

The Port of Iloilo (Spanish: Puerto de Iloilo) in Iloilo City, Philippines, serves the province and city of Iloilo and the entire Panay Island, in Western Visayas of the Philippines. It is located away from the older port facilities on the Southern coast of Panay Island, in the Panay Gulf, and one of the country’s safest and most natural harbors. Guimaras Island shields the port from violent storms and makes it ideal for harboring ships and vessels.

The Iloilo River is an estuary river located in the province of Iloilo, in Western Visayas, Philippines. The river starts in Oton at Batiano River, which is also an estuary, then traverses through the Iloilo City districts of Lapuz, La Paz, Mandurriao, Molo, Arevalo and the City Proper, before emptying into the Iloilo Strait. As an estuary, the river level fluctuates with the tides. This flow brings in nutrients from the sea, which makes the Iloilo River a nursery for fish species such as bangus and tilapia. The banks of the river are home to 22 of the country's 35 mangrove species, as well as the rare metapenaeus insolitus.

Iloilo Sports Complex, also known as the Iloilo Sports Center is a multi-use sports complex in La Paz, Iloilo City, Philippines and is the venue of athletic events in Iloilo province and Western Visayas and occasionally hosts large gatherings such as concerts. Its main stadium, the Main Stadium, has a seating capacity of 7,000.Iloilo Sports Complex includes an Olympic-size swimming pool, an oval running track, a football field, two volleyball courts, two basketball courts, two tennis courts and four badminton courts. An indoor gymnasium is located 200 meters away from the main site.The athletics track underwent repair in 2014 which costed ₱100 thousand though it had to be rehabilitated again due to the number of sporting events hosted by the venue. The sports venue had to be closed in October 2015 for renovation works. The ₱18 million rehabilitation was completed in December 2015. The athletics track was rubberized and had its lanes painted. The football field also had its grass switched to another type of Bermuda grass.It hosts the home matches of Iloilo F.A. football team. In February 2018, Kaya Futbol Club adopted the Iloilo Sports Complex as their home venue. Liga Futbol Inc., the organization that manages the Philippines Football League approved the usage of the field for league matches by Kaya on April 20, 2018. The club is set to play their first home league match against Global Cebu on May 2.

The Iloilo Science and Technology University (also referred to as ISAT-U or ISAT) is a state research university located in La Paz, Iloilo City, Philippines. Founded in 1905 under the American colonial government of the Philippines, it is mandated and chartered as a polytechnical university by the Philippine government to provide undergraduate and graduate courses in technology education, agriculture, fishery, engineering, arts and sciences, forestry, business, health, computer, criminology, nautical and short-term vocational-technical and other continuing courses. It attained its university status in 2013 renaming it to its present name, the Iloilo Science and Technology University (ISAT-U). As a public research university, ISAT-U is also mandated to promote research, advanced studies, extension work and progressive leadership in its area of specialization. Its main campus is located in Burgos St., La Paz, Iloilo City with external campuses in Leon, Miag-ao, Barotac and Dumangas.

Molo (locally [ˈmolo]) is a district of Iloilo City in Iloilo Province, on Panay Island in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It is the most densely populated district of all the seven districts of Iloilo City. Molo was a separate municipality before it was incorporated into the then-municipality of Iloilo by virtue of Act No. 719 of 1903. Molo was originally the Parián (Chinese district or Chinatown) of Iloilo, which is the area that the Chinese residents of Iloilo lived in. It is also known as the "Athens of the Philippines," being the birthplace of famous Philippine Ilustrados and some of the country's greatest philosophers and political leaders, including numerous chief justices, senators, governors, generals, congressmen, and cabinet officials. Several known families that came from Molo include - the Locsin, Lacson, Sayson, Pison, Layson, Yusay, among others, who are descended from Chinese immigrants who hispanized, adopted Roman Catholicism and settled in Molo. The popular St. Anne Parish Church, more commonly known as Molo Church, is a centuries-old church which lies in front of the Molo Plaza. The national high school of the city, Iloilo City National High School, is also located in Molo. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) are among the government agencies with regional offices in Molo. The Philippines' national hero, José Rizal, visited Molo Church on his way to Manila from exile in Dapitan. He exclaimed "La iglesia bonita!" as he saw the church, acknowledging its beauty.Pancit Molo, a popular Ilonggo dish named after the district, is a pork dumpling soup is a type of soup using wonton wrappers consists of a mixture of ground pork wrapped in molo or wonton wrapper, shredded chicken meat, and also shrimps. According to the 2020 census, Molo has a population of 76,393 people, making it the second-most populous district of Iloilo City, after Jaro.

Jaro Cathedral, formally known as Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral and the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Candles (Spanish: Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria), is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jaro. It is located in the district of Jaro in Iloilo City, Iloilo, on the island of Panay in the Philippines. It was placed under the patronage of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary.The Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines formally declared the cathedral the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Candles (Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria) in February 2012. The cathedral is the second national shrine in the Visayas and Mindanao, the first being the Basilica del Santo Niño in Cebu. Likewise, it is also the second Marian dedicated declared "National Shrine" church or cathedral in Visayas and Mindanao (first National Shrine in Western Visayas).The statue of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Candelaria) perched atop the façade of the cathedral, is the first Marian image canonically crowned personal by a Pope and Saint (John Paul II) in the Philippines and Asia. Also, through the said canonical crowning, the Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria has been declared as the official Roman Catholic patron of Western Visayas and Romblon

The Jaro Evangelical Church is a Baptist church in Jaro, Philippines, affiliated with the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches. Founded on February 28, 1900 when the Philippines was opened to the Protestant American missions by the Swedish Baptist minister Eric Lund under the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, it is the "first Baptist church in the Philippines" and the first Protestant church outside Manila. Jaro Evangelical Church's inception from the beginning is catalyst to the foundation (which it shares a strong association with) of Central Philippine University, the first Baptist and second American university in the Philippines and in Asia, an institution of higher learning founded through the benevolent grant of an American industrialist and philanthropist, John D. Rockefeller in 1905.