>>There was never any Chicago mob influence in Peoria even to this day.

They might have given it up as a waste of time, but they were certainly trying to get a foothold there in the late 1940s.

Isn't it funny that all these downstate clubs started buying chips from Joseph Aiuppa and Robert Ansani after the Sheltons were murdered? I wonder which "salesman" Taylor&Co sent down there. Taylor wasn't just connected with the Chicago mob, Taylor WAS the Chicago mob.