Businesses
As Pekin’s Bicentennial Year continues, this week we’ll take a look back over the...
Pekin
With the passing of Charles Lohman “Chuck” Dancey at the age of 107 earlier...
Photos by Jared L. Olar, Pekin Public Library Local History Program Coordinator
Pekin Mayor Mary Burress will formally inaugurate Pekin’s yearlong calendar of Bicentennial celebrations tomorrow...
Before the formal platting and surveying of the little pioneer settlement that would be...
As Pekin has now entered its Bicentennial Year, it’s good to recall that 100...
The New Year A.D. 2024 promises to be a memorable one for Pekin, with...
While it is natural that people might express interest in the history of the...
Crime
In last week’s installment of our series on the 1 March 1938 death of...
This week’s installment of our series on the death of Betty Crabb and its...