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For the next installment in our series on the downtown Pekin businesses included in...

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

One of the most valuable and useful features of Charles C. Chapman’s 1879 “History...

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

Recently we highlighted the somewhat tense and at times colorful relationship that noted Pekin...

Following on last week’s portrait of the life of Pekin Mayor Daniel Sapp, we...

Among the old families of the Delavan and Hopedale areas are the Orendorffs, whose...

Ben C. Allensworth’s 1905 “History of Tazewell County” devotes an entire chapter (Chapter VII)...