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Run, Pass, Slam, Slice, or Pull Your Way into Dragon Athletics This Fall

Jun 26, 2025 08:53AM

While it feels like summer has just begun, it’s already time to start thinking about fall athletics. Pekin Community High School is proud of the number of athletics and club opportunities we offer our students and are especially proud of our student athletes who represent us so well on—and off the field.

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PEKIN — WE ARE MOVING FORWARD

Jun 26, 2025 08:47AM ● By John V. Dossey, City Manager

Recently, the Mayor received a thoughtful letter from a lifelong Pekin resident expressing concern about the City’s purchase of the Lutticken property. The letter voiced worries about rising taxes, the pace of change, and whether Pekin is truly ready for growth.

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Big Kids Helping Little Kids Grow Up The Annual Jeep Creep for St. Jude at Uftring Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram

Jun 26, 2025 08:17AM ● By Alexander Germanis

It has been said that some kids never grow up; the size of the cars they play with just get bigger. Ian Lott and his staff at Uftring Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram in Pekin might be some of those kids.

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June 2025 Issue

Jun 02, 2025 08:20AM

Read the June, 2025 edition of The Pekin Hometown Voice Newspaper.

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Jefferson Frizzel and Peter Logan – Tazewell’s First Black Landowners

May 29, 2025 03:39PM ● By Jared L. Olar, Local History Program Coordinator

This month, Tazewell County will celebrate Juneteenth with a program on Thursday, June 19, at 10am in rural Tremont along Franklin Street, near the southwest corner of the intersection of Franklin Street and Springfield Road.

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Congratulations Pekin Community High School Class of 2025

May 29, 2025 01:53PM

Class of 2025

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Pekin RC Club

May 29, 2025 01:51PM

For half a century, The Pekin RC Club has been located in Dirksen Park on Edgewater Drive (Route 98) about 2 miles East of Route 29. They are a not-for-profit group of radio control flying enthusiasts that gather at the Hermon D Lowery Field several times a week to share their flying stories and fly their models.

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Welcome Home Rev. Bill Friederich

May 29, 2025 01:50PM

On June 8, 2025, Pentecost Sunday, St. Paul United Church of Christ at 101 N. 8th, Pekin, will joyfully welcome home Rev. Bill Friederich to lead the 9:30am Sunday worship service at the church where he was both baptized and confirmed.

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Fogelberg Foundation of Peoria

May 29, 2025 01:49PM

Fogelberg Foundation of Peoria, in partnership with the Pekin Park Concert Band, is pleased to announce a very special upcoming event to honor the late Lawrence Fogelberg, forever eulogized by his son, Dan, in the musical tribute entitled, “Leader of the Band.”

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Scout On In Central Illinois – Have You Ever Wondered Why Scouts Wear Uniforms?

May 29, 2025 01:48PM ● By Scott Fishel

When my boys were in grade school, they would often wear their Cub Scout uniform to school on the day of their weekly den meeting. They loved it, their teachers loved it, the principal loved it.

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