Hello and welcome to our visitors! In the summer of 2015 the Pekin Public Library debuted this new weblog spotlighting our Local History Room collection. The weekly “From the Local History Room” column that is published in the Saturday Pekin Daily Times will be posted here. We welcome your comments and questions and research queries.
This week we will take another look at one of Pekin’s successful and prominent...
Among Pekin’s most prominent businessmen and community leaders of days gone by was Otto...
Among the many notable people of Pekin’s past were William John Conzelman (1865-1916), a...
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