Jared L. Olar

As we recalled last week, the same year that Pekin voted to incorporate as...

In our previous installment in our Pekin Bicentennial series we reviewed the story of how...

Of Pekin’s remaining historic downtown storefronts, perhaps Hamm’s Furniture’s high-peaked façade at 347-351 Court...

Our Bicentennial series on the history of Pekin continues this week with the account...

In a previous post here, we looked into the historical accounts and legends of how...

Since the early 2000s, the building at 337 Court St. has been the home...

The first 19 years of Pekin’s history cover the period when our community was...

The final resting place of Nance Legins-Costley’s eldest child now has a monument, thanks...

As we continue our Bicentennial series on Pekin’s history, this week we will revisit...

The buildings in Pekin’s historic downtown range in age from about a century and...