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.
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...
In previous installments of our ongoing Pekin Bicentennial series, we have recalled the earliest...
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