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By Jared Olar Library assistant This week we again examine some items that recently...

By Jared Olar Library assistant Two weeks ago, we explored a remarkable aspect of...

By Jared Olar Library assistant A few weeks ago, a Pekin Public Library patron...

By Jared Olar Library assistant In this column we explore topics related to the...

By Jared Olar Library assistant Question: What do Pekin’s pioneer historian William H. Bates,...

By Jared Olar Library assistant Although it has been 13 years since CILCO –...

By Jared Olar Library assistant This week we’ll revisit a subject that we first...

By Jared Olar Library assistant In Mackinaw Township Cemetery is a gravestone marked with...

Attention all local history or library history buffs: Currently on display in the Pekin...

By Jared Olar Library assistant Note: Archivists and historians in Missouri recently contacted the...