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Tazewell County history

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...

Back in May of this year, a collection of 1924 and 1925 Tazewell County...

By Jared L. Olar Local History Program Coordinator Here at “From the History Room”...

To mark the 160th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in July, a historic...

War

Almost 45 years after Tazewell County’s collection of Civil War artifacts were carried away...

President Abraham Lincoln’s long road to the White House began in his days as...

Over a year after Tazewell County was erected by the Illinois General Assembly in...

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

One of the most prominent of Pekin’s community leaders in the earliest years of...