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Among the special events of Pekin’s Bicentennial last year was the first-ever German Frühlingfest (Springfest)...

This week we will begin to tell the story of the Reardon family, who...

As we saw last time, the Dietrich C. Smith family were the first to...

In this week’s continuation of the history of 405 Willow St., we will delve...

One of Pekin’s community leaders in the latter part of the 1800s and early...