Pekin history

In the summer of 1834, the small pioneer community of Pekin – just four...

One of Pekin’s more recent downtown businesses is a café and gift shop called...

The 1974 Pekin Sesquicentennial volume devotes four paragraphs to the story of what was...

In days gone by, well before the Surgeon General’s warnings about the dangers of...

The building at 437 Court St. – known to longtime Pekin residents as The...

Ongoing research into the family of Nance Legins-Costley (1813-1892) has recently uncovered additional information...

With last week’s collapse and emergency demolition of the western section of the Pekin...

Though Pekin has already lost much of the buildings lining its Courthouse Square, and...

Sunday this week was the 174th anniversary of Pekin’s vote to incorporate as a...

Last Saturday morning, Aug. 12, the Tazewell County Courthouse hosted a celebration of the...