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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.
Long a pillar of Pekin’s community life, the Pekin YWCA at 315...
Jared L. Olar
May 21, 2024
The customers of First Pekin Savings Bank, 532 Court St., can read...
Jared L. Olar
May 18, 2024
By Jared L. Olar, Local History Program Coordinator, and Linda Mace, Library...
Jared L. Olar
May 18, 2024
Pekinites of an older generation will remember the building at 525-527 Court...
Jared L. Olar
May 15, 2024
Since 2011, the Brawner family has been serving up music and drinks...
Jared L. Olar
May 10, 2024
The era of Prohibition during the 1920s is remembered as a time...
Jared L. Olar
May 9, 2024
The city of Pekin currently has four Illinois State Historical Society markers...
Jared L. Olar
May 1, 2024
Since the spring of 2022, the historic 407 Court St. building has...
Jared L. Olar
May 1, 2024
The historic structure at the southeast corner of Court and Fourth streets...
Jared L. Olar
April 25, 2024
As we continue our Pekin Bicentennial series, this week and the next...
Jared L. Olar
April 25, 2024
Pekin and Tazewell County were well represented at the 2024 Illinois State...
Jared L. Olar
April 25, 2024
Since the mid-1990s, the building at 363 Court St. – the northwest...
Jared L. Olar
April 19, 2024
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