Documents Tagged ‘Mayor Ed Woodruff’
‘The Good Old Woodruff Days’
Archive Entry Date: 6/26/76
Three decades after the decline of Roarin' Peoria, some still missed “the Good Old Days”
Now They’re Proud of Peoria
Archive Entry Date: 8/55
Feminist pioneer Betty Friedan praised World War II veterans for turning around Peoria.
The Cities of America: Peoria
Archive Entry Date: 2/12/1949
The Saturday Evening Post's panoramic view of Peoria, from its “valley” to its “bluff”
TIME Magazine: By the River
Archive Entry Date: 2/26/1945
Peoria had been “the biggest little wide open town in the Midwest,” but what was next for the city?
Woodruff Tells AP That Crusaders Caused His Defeat
Archive Entry Date: 2/14/1945
Woodruff's defeat marked the end of an era in Peoria
Triebel and Madden Win Mayor Races
Archive Entry Date: 2/14/1945
In a stunning defeat for Sin City, Mayor Ed Woodruff was clobbered in the 1945 mayoral primary
Bluff Outvotes Valley Wards
Archive Entry Date: 2/14/1945
A harbinger of major reforms to come, the wealthy bluff outvoted the valley for the first time in 1945
Mayor Woodruff: More Penicillin Needed
Archive Entry Date: 10/10/1944
A $1000 order of penicillin was urged to combat the city's growing “social problem”
Council Votes Cleanup Power
Archive Entry Date: 12/1/1943
The health department was empowered to inspect anyone thought to have VD
City Council Targets Social Diseases
Archive Entry Date: 11/30/1943
The city council urged the Mayor to work with the US Army to fight vice
Plan Fight on Social Disease
Archive Entry Date: 11/19/1943
All of Illinois law enforcement was marshalled to stamp out vice in Peoria
U.S. Plans To Close City to Men On Leave
Archive Entry Date: 01/28/1942
A spike in VD in Peoria led the US public health board to take action
Council-Mayor Fight Widens
Archive Entry Date: 12/17/1941
In late-1941 Mayor Woodruff and Peoria's city council feuded over the protection of vice in the city