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While it is natural that people might express interest in the history of the...

One of Pekin’s more recent downtown businesses is a café and gift shop called...

The 1974 Pekin Sesquicentennial volume devotes four paragraphs to the story of what was...

In days gone by, well before the Surgeon General’s warnings about the dangers of...

The building at 437 Court St. – known to longtime Pekin residents as The...

Though Pekin has already lost much of the buildings lining its Courthouse Square, and...

Those who patronize Maquet’s Rail House at 221 Court St. not only enjoy a...

Recently a historical research query was submitted to the Pekin Public Library from someone...

This final installment in our series on the group of 19th century Pekin business...

This week we feature another of the six 19th-century downtown Pekin businesses in the...