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Bates’ Souvenir

A brief history of Pekin history

With the end of Pekin’s Bicentennial year fast approaching, this is an opportune time...

Tazewell County

The ‘Deep Snow’ of 1830-31 and Tazewell County’s ‘Snowbirds’

Only 11 months after the founding of Pekin, the survival of the nascent pioneer...

Nasty winters and ‘Snowbirds’

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

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