William R. "Mickey" Cosgrove Jr.
Tinney's son · Pvt., 33rd Armored Regiment · KIA 29 Aug 1944
Born in Peru on April 9, 1924 to William R. Cosgrove Sr. and Mabel Kohr Cosgrove. Five-foot-five, 155 pounds, hazel eyes, brown hair. After high school he ran a service station at 4th and Pike. Enlisted Feb 23, 1943 at age 18, placed in Company I of the 33rd Armored Regiment. Landed at Omaha Beach on June 26, 1944. Wounded in the Battle of Hill 91 on July 10–11, returned to duty August 7, killed in action twenty-two days later on August 29. His remains came home in 1948 — funeral and burial at St. Vincent Cemetery in LaSalle, Purple Heart awarded posthumously. The day Tinney got the telegram, he walked off the Peacock construction site and never came back.
Mickey's Service Station. The legitimate Cosgrove front died with the son.
South Bluff Country Club. The remarkable part: the Cosgrove family lived on the grounds for a stretch in the early 1940s.
Landmark · Peru · 1933–1953
Mickey's Service Station
Tinney Cosgrove's son ran the legitimate front
Fourth and Pike Streets, Peru, IL
Gambling · Vice · Peru · 1933–1953
South Bluff Country Club
Tinney Cosgrove's other club — and his family's home
229 N 2550th Rd, Peru, IL 61354