Peoria Is a Pizza Destination

Take a pizza pilgrimage to Illinois, and see how a tough Midwestern town keeps cranking out the good stuff

Justin Glawe
Heated
Published in
7 min readDec 30, 2019

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The pie at Larry’s Driftwood. Photos: Justin Glawe

On a Saturday morning in Creve Coeur, just across the Illinois River from my hometown of Peoria, a server at Larry’s Driftwood walked back toward the kitchen window to talk to the man in a Carhartt jacket about a 19-year-old kid who was…

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Justin Glawe
Heated
Writer for

Independent journalist and founder of Unsolved Georgia, an investigation of the murders of more than 600 women here. Subscribe at justinglawe.substack.com/