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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...

In September 2013 and January 2014, we recalled a dramatic story that was recorded...

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

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...