Documents Tagged ‘reform’
“Prostitution in Peoria — always a tricky, risky enterprise”
Archive Entry Date: 10/3/93
Brothels find new neighborhoods after demolitions.
Barren Land in Southtown Teemed With Brothels
Archive Entry Date: 10/3/1993
Did the lives of prostitutes change for the worse with reform?
“Peoria Says Goodbye to Merry-Go-Round”
Archive Entry Date: 9/30/79
A well-known hub for prostitution was demolished in 1979.
Survey Shows Prostitution On Rise
Archive Entry Date: 05/07/1959
Prostitution was tightly monitored, and even more tightly controlled, in 1950s Peoria
Old Peoria Was ‘Right’ for Sheltons…
Archive Entry Date: 4/16/1957
The killing of the head of a gambling syndicate, in 1948, gave a huge boost to Peoria's reformers
The Town That Reformed
Archive Entry Date: 10/1/1955
Reform meant a new, professionalized city management, but did not go uncontested
Now They’re Proud of Peoria
Archive Entry Date: 8/55
Feminist pioneer Betty Friedan praised World War II veterans for turning around Peoria.
Vice Termed As Sabotage
Archive Entry Date: 12/07/1943
Ministers called vice “sabotage” and accused Peoria's citizens of thwarting the war effort
Peoria Vice Hit By Government
Archive Entry Date: 3/18/1942
The Christian Century editorialized against Peoria as “the sinkhole of midwestern vice”