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.

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As we near the completion of our series on Tazewell County’s unincorporated communities, this...

It is both a sorrow and a shock to learn of the passing on...

Two weeks ago we spotlighted the unincorporated village of Dillon, seat of Dillon Township....

Long before people looked to the Internet and television as a convenient source of...

As we continue our series on Tazewell County’s unincorporated communities, this week we go...

Having reviewed the history of Boynton Township last week, and spotlighted that township’s only...

In highlighting Tazewell County’s unincorporated communities, recently we saw that, despite its size, Spring...

As we continue our series on Tazewell County’s unincorporated communities, this week we return...

Over the last two weeks we have taken a look at the Spring Lake...

Continuing our series on the unincorporated communities in Tazewell County, this week we’ll look...