Lakeside Cemetery

As we continue our Pekin Bicentennial series, this week and the next we will...

Of Pekin’s remaining historic downtown storefronts, perhaps Hamm’s Furniture’s high-peaked façade at 347-351 Court...

As Pekin has now entered its Bicentennial Year, it’s good to recall that 100...

In the summer of 1834, the small pioneer community of Pekin – just four...

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