Documents Tagged ‘prostitution’


U.S. Plans To Close City to Men On Leave

Archive Entry Date: 01/28/1942

A spike in VD in Peoria led the US public health board to take action

Council-Mayor Fight Widens

Archive Entry Date: 12/17/1941

In late-1941 Mayor Woodruff and Peoria's city council feuded over the protection of vice in the city

A Prostitute at the Window

Archive Entry Date: 5/1938

From the famed camera of Arthur Rothstein: a Peoria prostitute peeks out at the street

Peoria Sadly Clamps Lid On For First Time

Archive Entry Date: 10/21/30

In the wake of kidnappings and murder, the State Attorney ordered Peoria's gambling houses closed