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  • Collection: Champaign's Gambling Hotspots in 1937

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Receipts for bets placed at Turf Club

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Turf Club door at 115½ N. Market St.

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Photo of Turf Club Door at 113 1/2 N. Market Street

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Turf Club, aka Klemick’s, at 113 ½ & 115½ N. Market St., Champaign

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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.

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Staged photo of professional gambling in Champaign

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32 Chester St. door to Stables Annex

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105 N. Market St. door of Stables Annex, aka Pitchers, at the corner of Chester and N. Market
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