Deep Snow

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

The first 19 years of Pekin’s history cover the period when our community was...

As we continue our Bicentennial series on Pekin’s history, this week we will revisit...

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...

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

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

By Jared Olar Library assistant For the first 19 years of its existence, from...

Ben C. Allensworth’s 1905 “History of Tazewell County” devotes an entire chapter (Chapter VII)...