Return to Illinois

 Return to Home page

 

Windsor Club

1928 USPC

311 Fulton Street

Peoria, IL 61602

Delivered to: Robert McClugage, Peoria, IL
 
 

When the chips were delivered, Robert McClugage was operating a place called the Windsor Coffee Shop, sometimes called the Windsor Club, Windsor Café or just The Windsor. The Windsor, a well known gambling joint, operated on Fulton Street in downtown Peoria from the late 1800’s into the 1950’s.
 

1929 ad

1928 city directory

 

In 1930 an investigator from the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Prohibition visited Peoria

 

April 7, 1928 Daily Racing Form on McClugage

December 3, 1931— Chicago Tribune. The Windsor is bombed during a “gambling war.”

 

April 15, 1928 Chicago Tribune article on McClugage
 

On May 24th 1928 the Windsor Coffee Shop Purse is run at Aurora