While Pekin traces its origin to the 1824 arrival of Jonathan Tharp from Ohio,...
In a previous post here, we looked into the historical accounts and legends of how...
The first 19 years of Pekin’s history cover the period when our community was...
Pekin Mayor Mary Burress will formally inaugurate Pekin’s yearlong calendar of Bicentennial celebrations tomorrow...
This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...
As previously noted in this column, the city of Pekin was established at the...
For the first 19 years of its existence, from 1830 to 1849, Pekin was...
The founding of Pekin was due to the influx of settlers of central Illinois...
The Black Hawk War of 1832 is a significant moment in Illinois history, for...
One of the publications in the Pekin Public Library’s Local History Room collection is...
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