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Jeff Brooks

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Age: 26

Category: Fiction

Languages: German, French

Author's Articles

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Celebrating and mapping Tazewell County’s history

Jared Olar Library assistant The opening of Illinois’ Bicentennial Year A.D. 2017-2018 was marked...

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Trials of the first slave freed by Abraham Lincoln

This is a slightly revised version of one of our “From the Local History...

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Free State of Illinois: Gov. Coles calls for emancipation

By Jared Olar Library assistant Previously in our ongoing Illinois Bicentennial series, we saw...

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Illinois makes it to 10: the state’s first incorporated cities

By Jared Olar Library assistant Following up on our recent accounts of how Pekin...

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Revisiting ‘Pekin, Incorporated’ — Pekin’s first incorporation needed a ‘do-over’

By Jared Olar Library assistant In recent installments of our ongoing Illinois Bicentennial series,...

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Bernard Bailey (1812-1903), Pekin’s first mayor

This is a revised version of one of our “From the Local History Room”...

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How Pekin became the 10th incorporated city in Illinois

This is a revised version of one of our “From the Local History Room”...

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William H. Bates’ list of Pekin’s ‘firsts’

This is a slightly revised version of one of our “From the Local History...

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When Pekin was only a town

By Jared Olar Library assistant For the first 19 years of its existence, from...

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Jacob Tharp’s memoir of Pekin’s founding

By Jared Olar Library assistant The founding of Pekin was due to the influx...

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