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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With this post to our Local History Room weblog, we continue our...

Jared L. Olar

December 28, 2016

This week we continue the March 14, 1896 Pekin Daily Times account...

Jared L. Olar

December 23, 2016

In our column last week, we presented the Pekin Daily Times account...

Jared L. Olar

December 16, 2016

In last week’s column, we reviewed what the March 14, 1896 edition...

Jared L. Olar

December 9, 2016

With this post to our Local History Room weblog, we continue our...

Jared L. Olar

December 6, 2016

In the From the Local History Room column published in the April...

Jared L. Olar

December 5, 2016

Three years ago in this column space, in a column entitled “Two...

Jared L. Olar

December 2, 2016

War

Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, was the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of...

Jared L. Olar

November 25, 2016

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