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Plans are underway for a permanent stone monument in downtown Pekin to honor the...

Is this the year you are going to start your genealogy journey? Or perhaps...

The two Illinois State Historical Markers for the Freedom & Remembrance Memorial that were...

One of Pekin’s traditions of “Christmas of times past” is the downtown Santa House,...

Ongoing research into the history of the African-American Shipman family of Tazewell County has...

Over a year after Tazewell County was erected by the Illinois General Assembly in...

In June and July this summer “From the History Room” devoted some attention to...

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

A great deal of progress has been made in the effort to create the...

Recently a historical research query was submitted to the Pekin Public Library from someone...