Documents Tagged ‘US military’
LeRoy Pryor Receives Section 8 Discharge
Archive Entry Date: 7/25/44
LeRoy Pryor was discharged without honor from the US Army at the height of mobilization for WWII
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
Peoria Vice Hit By Government
Archive Entry Date: 3/18/1942
The Christian Century editorialized against Peoria as “the sinkhole of midwestern vice”