For Direct and Authentic Race Results CALL ON PITCHER and MAIER 105 N. Market
Phone 6-1500 Champaign ...........................Free Lunch and Supper each Thursday and Friday Night and Bring Your Friend
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Title
"Pitcher and Maier" Business Card
Description
The card reads in full:
For Direct and Authentic Race Results CALL ON PITCHER and MAIER 105 N. Market
Phone 6-1500 Champaign ...........................Free Lunch and Supper each Thursday and Friday Night and Bring Your Friend
Creator
Jenny and Jean Pierre Vasaune
Source
Champaign County History Museum
Date
1930s
Rights
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These 40 clay poker chips were found inside a wall at 105 N. Market Street in Champaign during a 1984 remodeling of the building. The chips were presumably dumped into the wall during a police raid in the 1930s.
Creator
Jenny and Jean Pierre Vasaune
Source
Champaign County History Museum
Date
1930s
Rights
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"Champaign Mayor Cites Obstacles to War on Gambling"
Description
Headline of article "Champaign Mayor Cites Obstacles to War on Gambling" from November 21, 1895 issue of the Champaign Daily News.
Publisher
Champaign Daily News
Date
11/21/1895
Rights
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1925 Sheriff's book log entries for arrests. Note that the first six entries are arrests for gambling and those arrested are all out of state.
Source
Sheriff's Prisoner's Record Book Entry 1045
Date
1925
Rights
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1895 newspaper article about a police raid on an illegal gambling site located in a room above McCarty Bros. Restaurant at 71 E Main St.
Publisher
The Champaign Daily News
Date
November 21, 1895
Rights
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Front side of first known recorded criminal charge against gambling in Champaign County. Case filed October term, 1857. John Sullivan charged with keeping a common gambling house for his gain.
Source
Circuit Court Criminal Case 59 (1857): People vs. John Sullivan
Date
1858
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Image of University of Illinois student William Spurrier, whom ultimately died following a visit to local gambling, drinking, and prostitution establishments in Champaign.
Source
Urbana Courier, Newspaper Microfilm Collection, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
Publisher
Urbana Courier
Date
1939
Rights
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Mayor James Flynn’s 1939 re-election poster. He won the election on April 18, 1939.
Source
Champaign-Urbana Courier, Microfilm Collection, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
Publisher
Champaign-Urbana Courier
Date
1939
Rights
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First of a series of articles on gambling establishments in Champaign.
Creator
Anonymous
Source
The Evening Courier, Microfilm Collection, Champaign County Historical Archives at The Urbana Free Library
Publisher
Evening Courier
Date
4/29/1937
Rights
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Gus Dixon’s Policy House on the 600 block of Poplar St.
Source
"Gambling" Photographs Envelope, Champaign County Historical Archives
Date
1937
Rights
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