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Local History Program Coordinator at the Pekin Public Library. I oversee the library’s local history room collection, write a weekly local history column/weblog for the library, and present local history programs at the library and in the community.
The New Year A.D. 2024 promises to be a memorable one for...
Jared L. Olar
December 28, 2023
While it is natural that people might express interest in the history...
Jared L. Olar
December 21, 2023
In this series on the death of Betty E. Crabb of Delavan,...
Jared L. Olar
December 14, 2023
In last week’s installment of our series on the 1 March 1938...
Jared L. Olar
December 7, 2023
This week’s installment of our series on the death of Betty Crabb...
Jared L. Olar
November 30, 2023
In this week’s installment of this retelling of the story of Betty...
Jared L. Olar
November 22, 2023
Today we continue the tragic and sensational story of the death of...
Jared L. Olar
November 16, 2023
On Tuesday, 1 March 1938, Pekin Daily Times readers were met with the...
Jared L. Olar
November 9, 2023
In the summer of 1834, the small pioneer community of Pekin –...
Jared L. Olar
November 2, 2023
One of Pekin’s more recent downtown businesses is a café and gift...
Jared L. Olar
October 26, 2023
The 1974 Pekin Sesquicentennial volume devotes four paragraphs to the story of...
Jared L. Olar
October 19, 2023
Next Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, the Friends of the Pekin Public Library...
Jared L. Olar
October 12, 2023
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