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Peking (Beijing), China
- Tharp opened a smokehouse in 1827, and in 1829 the town was laid out and named Pekin by the wife of Nathan Cromwell, one of the city’s founders, for Peking (Beijing), China. Pekin’s first schoolhouse (Snell School) was opened in 1831 and fortified during the Black Hawk War (1832) as Fort Doolittle.
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Located on the Illinois River, Pekin is the largest city of Tazewell County and the second most populous municipality of the Peoria metropolitan area, after Peoria itself. [ 4 ] As of the 2020 census, its population is 31,731. [ 5 ] A small portion of the city limits extend into Peoria County.
Mar 29, 2024 · Our city is not the only U.S. community with that name, nor was it the first. For example, Pekin in Washington County, Indiana, got its name around the same time as Pekin, Illinois. There is also a small eastern Ohio community called Pekin, located near Minerva in Brown Township, Carroll County.
Pioneer photographer Herbert Cole described Pekin as “one of the wealthiest and most fertile in Illinois” in his 1899 publication, “Cole’s Souvenir of Pekin, Ill.” He praised Pekin for its system of railroads, its shipping facilities, and its “mineral springs, the best water in the state.”
The Pekin Park District was established in 1902, but the history of Pekin’s parks in fact begins 20 years earlier, when Mineral Springs Park – called “the jewel in the crown” of the Park District system by “Pekin: A Pictorial History” – was founded as a privately-owned park.
May 3, 2023 · Nowadays, the high school in Pekin, Illinois, boasts the Dragons as its nickname, but up until 1980, the school used a very different nickname. The 21st was joined by a local historian and a TikTokker who made a viral video talking about the history behind Pekin’s name and former team nickname.
Pekin, city, seat (1849) of Tazewell county, central Illinois, U.S. It lies along the Illinois River (bridged) just south of Peoria. French explorers wintered in the area in 1680. The first settler was Jonathan Tharp in 1824.
Mar 14, 2024 · When the Illinois General Assembly created Tazewell County in early 1827, Mackinaw was designated as the county seat because it was near what was then the geographical center of Tazewell County. But Pekin’s location as a port on the Illinois River meant Pekin was less remote than Mackinaw.
