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Everett W. Wilson

In our previous installment in our Pekin Bicentennial series we reviewed the story of how...

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

Thanks to the generosity of Busey Bank of Pekin (formerly Herget Bank), the Pekin...

In our series on the history of the Pekin Public Library, we have told...

In spotlighting the leading role of Miss Mary Gaither (1852-1945) in the planning and...

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