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.
One of Pekin’s more recent downtown businesses is a café and gift shop called...
The 1974 Pekin Sesquicentennial volume devotes four paragraphs to the story of what was...
Next Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023, the Friends of the Pekin Public Library will gather...
In days gone by, well before the Surgeon General’s warnings about the dangers of...
The building at 437 Court St. – known to longtime Pekin residents as The...
Ongoing research into the family of Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1892) has recently uncovered additional information...
With last week’s collapse and emergency demolition of the western section of the Pekin...
Back in May of this year, a collection of 1924 and 1925 Tazewell County...
Though Pekin has already lost much of the buildings lining its Courthouse Square, and...
Sunday this week was the 174th anniversary of Pekin’s vote to incorporate as a...
Monday-Thursday, 9.00 a.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Friday, 9.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Saturday, 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
