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.
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...
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...
Around the time white settlers began flooding into Tazewell County in the 1820s, Potawatomi War Chief...
This week our ongoing series turns to a downtown bakery that was owned and...
In this next installment in our series on the group of 19th-century downtown Pekin...
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