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While Pekin traces its origin to the 1824 arrival of Jonathan Tharp from Ohio,...

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

Around the time white settlers began flooding into Tazewell County in the 1820s, Potawatomi War Chief...

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

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

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

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

For the first 19 years of its existence, from 1830 to 1849, Pekin was...

On Friday, Feb. 2, at 11 a.m., the Pekin Public Library will present the...

When French missionaries and explorers first came to the Illinois Country in the 1600s,...