{"id":1582,"date":"1956-04-15T18:25:10","date_gmt":"1956-04-15T18:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2013-06-13T05:57:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T05:57:01","slug":"old-peoria-fixed-cops-gang-murders-wholesale-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1956\/04\/15\/old-peoria-fixed-cops-gang-murders-wholesale-kidnapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Peoria: Fixed Cops, Gang Murders, Kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the reform movement had gone through some ups and downs by the mid 1950s, the city&#8217;s culture had clearly changed significantly. While some forms of vice&#8211;prostitution and gambling in particular&#8211;remained prevalent in the city, the widespread corruption, and violence that came with it, was in serious decline.<\/p>\n<p>Here the <em>Peoria Journal Star <\/em>looked back on the city&#8217;s culture of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>(This clipping is part 2 of 4 from a series that the\u00a0<em>Journal Star<\/em> ran in April 1956.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though the reform movement had gone through some ups and downs by the mid 1950s, the city&#8217;s culture had clearly changed significantly. While some forms of vice&#8211;prostitution and gambling in particular&#8211;remained prevalent [&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":[11,119,374,347,261,22,18,17],"tags":[108,111,112],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1919-40","category-1953-1962","category-2-overviews-of-the-woodruff-era","category-2-empire-of-vice","category-reform_7","category-reform-this-town","category-sin-city","category-themes","tag-bombing","tag-kidnapping","tag-sheltons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","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=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}