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 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...
Continuing now with our series on Pekin’s downtown businesses featured in the group of...
This week our series on the 19th-century downtown Pekin business cards turns to an...
In advance of Pekin’s 50th Marigold Festival (to be celebrated 8-11 Sept. 2022), Pekin...
Last month a group of vintage late-19th-century Pekin business advertising cards, featuring photographs of...
In recent years, the lives of Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1892) and her family have become...
Recently Fred Massaglia brought an old photograph to the Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical...
Three weeks ago we reviewed Dr. W. E. Schenck’s 1905 list of the pioneer...
One of the most prominent of Pekin’s community leaders in the earliest years of...
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