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In this next installment in our series on the group of 19th-century downtown Pekin...

Continuing now with our series on Pekin’s downtown businesses featured in the group of...

This week our series on the 19th-century downtown Pekin business cards turns to an...

In advance of Pekin’s 50th Marigold Festival (to be celebrated 8-11 Sept. 2022), Pekin...

Last month a group of vintage late-19th-century Pekin business advertising cards, featuring photographs of...

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...

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...