Pekin
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...
Illinois
The founding of Pekin was due to the influx of settlers of central Illinois...
Last month we examined some fascinating details of Pekin’s founding that were recorded in...
Quite a lot has happened in Pekin in the 192 years since Jonathan Tharp...