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A Nightmare’s Echo: The death of Betty E. Crabb (Part Four)

This week’s installment of our series on the death of Betty Crabb and its...

Tazewell County

The Tazewell County Jail of 1892

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

Jesse Black, pioneer of Sand Prairie

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

The Roaring ’20s in Tazewell County

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

The Third Degree: Chapter 25: Aftermath and Epilogue

With this post to our Local History Room weblog, we conclude our series on...

The Third Degree: Chapter 24: A sudden ending to John Petje’s murder trial

With this post to our Local History Room weblog, we continue our series on...

The Third Degree: Chapter 23: The Nelan murder case finally goes to trial

With this post to our Local History Room weblog, we continue our series on...

The Third Degree: Chapter 22: County board to Sheriff Crosby: ‘Clean house’

With this post to our Local History Room weblog, we continue our series on...

The Third Degree: Chapter 21: An armful of petitions for impeachment

With this post to our Local History Room weblog, we continue our series on...

The Third Degree: Chapter 20: ‘We, the jury, find the defendants . . .’

With this post to our Local History Room weblog, we continue our series on...

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