This is the infamous building where Diamond Lil ran her “house of ill repute,” and shot and killed Joe Markley. When Marie Pryor moved to Peoria a few years after the incident, she set up her own brothel a block away down the same street.
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This is the infamous building where Diamond Lil ran her “house of ill repute,” and shot and killed Joe Markley. When Marie Pryor moved to Peoria a few years after the incident, she set up her own brothel a block away down the same street.
200 Block of Eaton Street, photograph by “Miss L. Sidney Esling,” 1930.