Pekin history

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...

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...

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

Last autumn a newly-published diary detailing an Easterner’s 1835 travels in the Midwest was...

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

We continue now with the genealogical account of the descendants of Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1892),...