Pekin history

In the Pekin Public Library’s Local History room collection is a copy of Pekin...

Long a pillar of Pekin’s community life, the Pekin YWCA at 315 Buena Vista...

The customers of First Pekin Savings Bank, 532 Court St., can read the bank’s...

Pekinites of an older generation will remember the building at 525-527 Court St. as...

Since 2011, the Brawner family has been serving up music and drinks from the...

The era of Prohibition during the 1920s is remembered as a time of speakeasies,...

The city of Pekin currently has four Illinois State Historical Society markers highlighting significant...

Since the spring of 2022, the historic 407 Court St. building has been the...

The historic structure at the southeast corner of Court and Fourth streets in Pekin’s...

As we continue our Pekin Bicentennial series, this week and the next we will...