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Tazewell County
Over a year after Tazewell County was erected by the Illinois General Assembly in...
Black History
In June and July this summer “From the History Room” devoted some attention to...
This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...
A great deal of progress has been made in the effort to create the...
Businesses
Recently a historical research query was submitted to the Pekin Public Library from someone...
It was three years ago that “From the History Room” presented a series on...
This final installment in our series on the group of 19th century Pekin business...
This week we feature another of the six 19th-century downtown Pekin businesses in the...
For the next installment in our series on the downtown Pekin businesses included in...
Native Americans
Around the time white settlers began flooding into Tazewell County in the 1820s, Potawatomi War Chief...