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Continuing now with our series on Pekin’s downtown businesses featured in the group of...

This week our series on the 19th-century downtown Pekin business cards turns to an...

Last month a group of vintage late-19th-century Pekin business advertising cards, featuring photographs of...

In recent years, the lives of Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1892) and her family have become...

Recently Fred Massaglia brought an old photograph to the Tazewell County Genealogical & Historical...

One of the most prominent of Pekin’s community leaders in the earliest years of...

Earlier this year, another important part of the life of Nance Legins-Costley was uncovered...

The 1870-71 Sellers & Bates Pekin City Directory has a duplicate entry for a...

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

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