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.
Although Pekin voted to incorporate as a city in 1849, Pekin had no literal...
Rivalling if not surpassing the Hamm’s Building for the title of most attractive and...
In the Pekin Public Library’s Local History room collection is a copy of Pekin...
Long a pillar of Pekin’s community life, the Pekin YWCA at 315 Buena Vista...
The customers of First Pekin Savings Bank, 532 Court St., can read the bank’s...
By Jared L. Olar, Local History Program Coordinator, and Linda Mace, Library assistant One...
Pekinites of an older generation will remember the building at 525-527 Court St. as...
Since 2011, the Brawner family has been serving up music and drinks from the...
The era of Prohibition during the 1920s is remembered as a time of speakeasies,...
The city of Pekin currently has four Illinois State Historical Society markers highlighting significant...
Monday-Thursday, 9.00 a.m. - 8.00 p.m.
Friday, 9.00 a.m. - 6.00 p.m.
Saturday, 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
