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Richard Pryor Gets the Last Laugh in Peoria

HAHA

The only memorial to the comedian in this town is a street sign. Preston Jackson is changing that with his bare hands.

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Justin Glawe/The Daily Beast

PEORIA, Illinois — Richard Pryor Avenue isn’t far from the studio where his visage has been meticulously sculpted in red clay by Preston Jackson. Drive through a warehouse district being gentrified in the town of 119,000 and you’ll find the Peoria that Pryor knew as a child.

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