{"id":1281,"date":"1930-10-21T21:10:10","date_gmt":"1930-10-21T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2013-06-10T17:26:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T17:26:39","slug":"wide-open-town-of-peoria-sadly-clamps-lid-on-for-the-first-time-in-its-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1930\/10\/21\/wide-open-town-of-peoria-sadly-clamps-lid-on-for-the-first-time-in-its-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Peoria Sadly Clamps Lid On For First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On October 20, 1930, Illinois State Attorney Harry Pratt ordered Peoria&#8217;s gambling establishments closed for the first time in the city&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Pratt was less concerned with solving the violent murder of a gambling house proprietor&#8217;s wife than with quelling rumors of corrupt financial interests in the gambling houses, and his order underscored the uneasy relationship the powers-that-be had developed with\u00a0Peoria&#8217;s organized vice. Both Pratt and Mayor Woodruff understood that the city&#8217;s economy thrived on the various rackets being run all over town, and that reform efforts had historically been unpopular and ineffective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 20, 1930, Illinois State Attorney Harry Pratt ordered Peoria&#8217;s gambling establishments closed for the first time in the city&#8217;s history. Pratt was less concerned with solving the violent murder of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[357,257,11,22],"tags":[86,96,34],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-that-defied-prohibition","category-reform_1","category-1919-40","category-reform-this-town","tag-bootlegging","tag-mayor-ed-woodruff","tag-prostitution"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5419,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/5419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}