Past Events

Local historian & family researcher Robert Hoffer will describe the plans for a Moffat Cemetery memorial that will be erected at the corner of Adams & Griswold in Peoria – just off the grounds of the former cemetery. More...

June 8 @ 7:00 p.m.  FREE & Open to the Public

Thomas McEntee, a professional genealogist specializing in the use of technology and social media, will present a Zoom meeting, Brick Wall Breakthroughs, using a research problem submitted by one or two of the attendees below.  More...

June 12th @ 4:00 p.m.

Tazewell County Underground Railroad Conductor Recognition Event Honoring the Historical Legacy of Underground Railroad Conductors
Josiah & Levi Matthews, John Albert Jones, Freeman Kingman, and Absalom Dillon.
The Event Will Be Held at the Historic Jones-Menard Residence in Tremont. More...

June 18th @ 4:00 p.m.

Tazewell County Underground Railroad Conductor Recognition Event And First-Ever Juneteenth Celebration Honoring the Historical Legacy of Underground Railroad Conductors Samuel Woodrow, Hugh Woodrow, William Woodrow, and John Sommers.

Event Will Be Held at Woodrow Cemetery in South Pekin.. More...

Free - Open to the Public

Ken Pope of Morton will present:
Pope Family Ancestry
1590 - 2021
Bristol England to Virginia to North Carolina to Tennessee to Illinois More...

Dr. Daniel E. Worthington, director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library, will speak on Lincoln and Science and Technology. More...

An Underground Railroad Conductor recognition ceremony is being held at Prairie Rest Cemetery in Delavan More...

Jared Olar, library assistant at Pekin Public Library, will present Pekin's Ladies and Literacy: How the leading women of Pekin created the city's original library. . More...