Businesses
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...
Black History
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...
Pekin
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...