Peoria Historian

ZIP TONE MURDER NORMAN V.  KELLY 501   McClure Peoria December 6, 1980 VICTIM:     LISA   CONN    AGE 17 WONDERFUL Nice pretty teenager sweet and courteous KILLERS   3 WOR...

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YOUR GRANDFATHER’S GANGSTERS NORMAN V.  KELLY Peoria had no gangsters.  It is all a myth that has been perpetuated over the years by reporters looking for sensational headlines. Our uncl...

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                       YOUNG BERNARD ZIMMERMAN Norman V. Kelly I first wrote about PFC Luther Bernard Zimmerman in my book LOST IN YESTERDAY’S NEWS  Here is what I said.  ...

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                           YOUNG  AUGUST  KIRCHOFF                                                        �...

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                       YEARLY   MURDERS   PEORIA                                  Norman  V  Kelly   1940      4   �...

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                       PEORIA:  A TEEN LOOKS AT WW 11                                                   NORMAN V. KELL...

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                           WOODROW  WILSON                                                    NORMAN  V.  KELLY ...

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                        WONDER  WHAT’S  IN  THERE?                                NORMAN  V.  KELLY   I am almost as old as tha...

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WHO  PAID THE FUNNY MONEY?   This is just a  SAMPLE of SOME of the ‘FUNNY MONEY’   or so-called SIN TAX  that was paid into the Coffers of the CITY of PEORIA. It usually amo...

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                              WHO  KILLED  DAVID  GIBBS?                                                    ...

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Whiskey-WAR. 1861   Mayor in 1861  when the war started  Civil War  Was   WILLIAM  WILLARD    WILLIAM WILLARD ON FIRST DAY HE RALLIED Peorians downtown   Young men eager to sign ...

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WHERE LAND, AIR AND WATER TRAVEL MEET                              NORMAN  V.  KELLY   Quite a title huh?  However that is what the chamber of commerce here ...

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                                       WHAT   GANGSTERS?                                           NORMAN  KEL...

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                           WE   LIKE   PROHIBITION   PROHIBITION IS AN AWFUL FLOP WE like it. It can’t stop what it’s meant to stop. We like it. ...

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                          WE CALLED  HER  ‘MOLDY MARY’                                        NORMAN  V.  KELLY   Calli...

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                                PEORIA:   WAY  BACK  IN  1951                                         NORMAN  V. ...

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                                                     PEORIA:  A  MALODOROUS TOWN                            �...

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                            THE  SAD  LOSS OF  UNCLE  JAMES                                          NORMAN  V.  KELL...

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                               WAR    DEAD    PEORIA                                  NORMAN   V.  KELLY   Spanish�...

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                    UNSOLVED   MURDER  SUMMARY                                 NORMAN   V    KELLY   Winter of 1922  Railroad d...

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                            TIDBITS OF PEORIA HISTORY                                  NORMAN  V.  KELLY   My lecturing and se...

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                             PEORIA:   How Great Thou Art?                                     NORMAN   V.  KELLY   A...

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THEATERS IN 1925   Along with the Vaudevillians in town   most of them stayed at the  VENDOME HOTEL on S Adams we had 14 movie theaters…The vaudevillians LOVED Peoria and we welcomed t...

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               THE  THIRTIES IN PEORIA, ILLINOIS                              NORMAN  V.  KELLY   Owned Gambling Casinos-  Gone 3-4 days ru...

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                            OLD  SETTLERS  ASSOCIATION                                     NORMAN  V.  KELLY   W have quite...

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