{"id":2496,"date":"1949-02-12T15:28:40","date_gmt":"1949-02-12T15:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2014-10-01T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:25:51","slug":"the-cities-of-america-peoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1949\/02\/12\/the-cities-of-america-peoria\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cities of America: Peoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1940s it became clear that Peoria was on its way to reform, but how far it would go remained up in the air. A new mayor, elected in 1945, had made serious headway in clamping down on corruption and vice, but the aldermanic system had yet to be taken on.<\/p>\n<p>To the <em>Saturday Evening Post<\/em>&#8216;s Elise Morrow,\u00a0Peoria was taking on some of the contours of a typical midwestern city, with its nice suburbs juxtaposed to industrial areas. Its future, though uncertain, was full of promise, in no small part because of the energy that its middle-class citizens were investing in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the late 1940s it became clear that Peoria was on its way to reform, but how far it would go remained up in the air. A new mayor, elected in 1945, had [&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":[232,13,264,9,401,22],"tags":[140,96,143,90],"class_list":["post-2496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-pryors-and-peoria-between-two-worlds","category-1946-52","category-reform_4","category-peoria-an-introduction","category-portraits-of-the-city","category-reform-this-town","tag-le-tourneau","tag-mayor-ed-woodruff","tag-saturday-evening-post","tag-urban-reform"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496","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=2496"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2496\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}