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‘In the Hollow of My Hand’ – Memories of the Native Peoples of Pekin and Tazewell County

While Pekin traces its origin to the 1824 arrival of Jonathan Tharp from Ohio,...

Native Americans

‘In the Hollow of my Hand’: Library’s Local History Room features display highlighting Native American life and culture of Central Illinois

Around the time white settlers began flooding into Tazewell County in the 1820s, Potawatomi War Chief...

Black Hawk, Shabbona, and the Clearance of Illinois’ Native Americans

By Jared Olar Library assistant As previously noted in this column, the city of...

Free State of Illinois: Gov. Coles calls for emancipation

By Jared Olar Library assistant Previously in our ongoing Illinois Bicentennial series, we saw...

Settlers pour into Peoria and Tazewell counties

By Jared Olar Library assistant On Friday, March 2, at 11 a.m., the Pekin...

Illinois’ race to statehood: 1813-1818

By Jared Olar Library assistant It was less than a decade from the creation...

War returns to Illinois

By Jared Olar Library assistant Following the conclusion of George Rogers Clark’s Illinois Campaign...

Slavery cast its shadow upon creation of the Illinois Territory

By Jared Olar Library assistant In the course of our survey of the events...

The first-comers to Illinois

By Jared Olar Library assistant As National American Indian Heritage Month nears its end,...

When Tazewell wasn’t a county and Illinois wasn’t a state

By Jared Olar Library assistant The year 1827 was a pretty important one in...

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