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