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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.
This week our series on the 19th-century downtown Pekin business cards turns...
Jared L. Olar
September 8, 2022
In advance of Pekin’s 50th Marigold Festival (to be celebrated 8-11 Sept....
Jared L. Olar
September 2, 2022
Last month a group of vintage late-19th-century Pekin business advertising cards, featuring...
Jared L. Olar
September 1, 2022
In recent years, the lives of Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1892) and her family...
Jared L. Olar
August 25, 2022
Recently Fred Massaglia brought an old photograph to the Tazewell County Genealogical...
Jared L. Olar
August 18, 2022
Three weeks ago we reviewed Dr. W. E. Schenck’s 1905 list of...
Jared L. Olar
August 11, 2022
One of the most prominent of Pekin’s community leaders in the earliest...
Jared L. Olar
July 28, 2022
In September 2013 and January 2014, we recalled a dramatic story that...
Jared L. Olar
July 14, 2022
This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column...
Jared L. Olar
July 7, 2022
Last week we told the story of how Nance Legins-Costley became one...
Jared L. Olar
June 30, 2022
Earlier this year, another important part of the life of Nance Legins-Costley...
Jared L. Olar
June 23, 2022
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