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Our nation this week marked the 77th anniversary of the Empire of Japan’s sneak...

In recent installments of our ongoing Illinois Bicentennial series, we have recalled the first...

This is a revised version of one of our “From the Local History Room”...

For the first 19 years of its existence, from 1830 to 1849, Pekin was...

One of the landmarks of arts and entertainment during Pekin’s bygone days was a...

Last month we learned the name of the riverboat whose deckhands went on a...

Here’s a chance to read one of our old Local History Room columns, first...

It’s on the logo of the Pekin Police Department and it’s the school symbol...

In recent weeks, this column recalled two local historical events that may be called...

The Pekin Public Library’s Pekin Community High School yearbooks are among the areas of...