In late-1941 Mayor Woodruff and Peoria’s city council feuded over the protection of vice in the city.
Peoria
A digital companion to the biography Becoming Richard Pryor
Council-Mayor Fight Widens
Date: 12/17/1941
Citation:
"Council-Mayor Fight Widens As New Edict On Vice Is Ignored," Peoria Journal-Transcript, Dec. 17, 1941.