Pekin history

The first 19 years of Pekin’s history cover the period when our community was...

The final resting place of Nance Legins-Costley’s eldest child now has a monument, thanks...

As we continue our Bicentennial series on Pekin’s history, this week we will revisit...

The buildings in Pekin’s historic downtown range in age from about a century and...

In previous installments of our ongoing Pekin Bicentennial series, we have recalled the earliest...

Among the historic buildings in Pekin’s old downtown is a structure at 215 Court...

For this third in our series of Pekin Bicentennial Black History Month articles, we’ll...

By Jared L. Olar Local History Program Coordinator The decade of the Sixties was...

As Pekin’s Bicentennial Year continues and we now find ourselves in Black History Month,...

As many have heard, last month Pekin lost one of its hometown heroes, U.S....