Tazewell County history

For this third in our series of Pekin Bicentennial Black History Month articles, we’ll...

By Jared L. Olar Local History Program Coordinator The decade of the Sixties was...

Before the formal platting and surveying of the little pioneer settlement that would be...

In this series on the death of Betty E. Crabb of Delavan, we have...

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...

In this week’s installment of this retelling of the story of Betty E. Crabb’s...

Today we continue the tragic and sensational story of the death of Betty E....

On Tuesday, 1 March 1938, Pekin Daily Times readers were met with the shocking and sensational...

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