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Pekin Sesquicentennial

Light and shadow: A review of Pekin’s African-American history and historiography

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

From ‘German-American’ to AMCORE: 105 years of Pekin banking (1887-1992)

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

The changing face of Pekin

This is a reprint of a “From the Local History Room” column that first...

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