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‘State of the City’ to kick off Pekin Bicentennial Year and commemorate Pekin’s founding on Jan. 19

Pekin Mayor Mary Burress will formally inaugurate Pekin’s yearlong calendar of Bicentennial celebrations tomorrow...

Jacob Tharp’s memoir of Pekin’s founding

The founding of Pekin was due to the influx of settlers of central Illinois...

Courthouse time capsule refreshes memories of Pekin’s founding

By Jared Olar Library assistant Quite a lot has happened in Pekin in the...

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