When Harold Parker was caught with his club open 30 minutes past his licensed 4:00 a.m. closing time, he assumed he could just head down to the police station and “sort things out.” However, when he attempted to pay a bribe, a second cop appeared from a closet and he discovered he’d been trapped.<\/p>\n
Whether the entire incident was a set-up or not (Parker claimed that he was just serving cake to an employee for their birthday), the days of wide-open Peoria were clearly over. Gamblers, hustlers and even legitimate club owners could no longer simply bribe their way out of legal trouble. What started as a simple code violation ended with Parker having to close the club<\/a>. He set up his next base of operations in Chicago, not Peoria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Harold Parker was caught with his club open 30 minutes past his licensed 4:00 a.m. closing time, he assumed he could just head down to the police station and “sort things out.” […]<\/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":[363,343,352,61,67,6],"tags":[53,427,178,177],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entangled-with-the-authorities","category-hanging-on-after-urban-renewal","category-7-reform-vs-the-players-of-n-washington","category-harold-parker-people","category-harolds-club","category-north-washington-street","tag-harold-parker","tag-harolds-club","tag-police","tag-sting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","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=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5629,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/5629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}