Businesses
Last month a group of vintage late-19th-century Pekin business advertising cards, featuring photographs of...
Black History
In recent years, the lives of Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1892) and her family have become...
Recently Fred Massaglia brought an old photograph to the Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical...
Pekin
Three weeks ago we reviewed Dr. W. E. Schenck’s 1905 list of the pioneer...
One of the most prominent of Pekin’s community leaders in the earliest years of...
This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...
In September 2013 and January 2014, we recalled a dramatic story that was recorded...
Last week we told the story of how Nance Legins-Costley became one of Tazewell...
Earlier this year, another important part of the life of Nance Legins-Costley was uncovered...