 Some of his achievements included the construction of the First National Bank Building, the Pere Marquette Hotel, the Peoria Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, the City Garbage Department Building and the long awaited Cedar Street Bridge.He also improved the conditions of the police and fire departments, widened Jefferson Street, added almost 40 miles of paved sidewalks and established Eckwood Park.Woodruff built a political machine through patronage, telling reporters "The boys that can deliver the votes are the boys that get the jobs."