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    Pekin (/ˈpiːkɪn/ PEE-kin) is a city in and the county seat of Tazewell County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located on the Illinois River, Pekin is the...
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    South Pekin is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. The population was 996 at the 2020 census and is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan...
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    North Pekin is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,573 at the 2010 census. North Pekin is a suburb of Peoria and...
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    Pekin Community High School District 303 is a public school district in Pekin, Illinois, that operates one high school, Pekin Community High School (PCHS)...
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    the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 131,343. Its county seat and largest city is Pekin. It is pronounced...
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  • in Moscow, Russia Pekin, Illinois Pekin Township, Tazewell County, Illinois Pekin, Indiana Old Pekin, Indiana New Pekin, Indiana Pekin, Iowa Paducah, Kentucky...
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    Correctional Institution, Pekin (FCI Pekin) is a medium-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Illinois. It is operated by the Federal...
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    6/Illinois Route 89 at Spring Valley to U.S. Route 51/Illinois Route 16 at Pana, running through Pekin, Peoria and Springfield. The nearest major north–south...
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    Everett Dirksen (category People from Pekin, Illinois)
    Born in Pekin, Illinois, Dirksen served as an artillery officer during World War I and opened a bakery after the war. After serving on the Pekin City Council...
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    ] Soady, Fred W. (1964). "In These Waste Places: Pekin, Illinois, 1824-1849". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 57 (2): 156–171. ISSN 0019-2287...
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    Scott Altman (category People from Pekin, Illinois)
    Texas in May 2009. He is a resident of Pekin, Illinois, along with his parents, Fred and Sharon Altman. The Pekin District 108 school board voted to honor...
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  • The album, which was recorded at the Golden Voice Studios in South Pekin, Illinois, is their most successful. The diner photographed on the back cover...
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    Soady, Fred W. (1964). "In These Waste Places: Pekin, Illinois, 1824-1849". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 57 (2): 156–171. ISSN 0019-2287...
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    originally called "The League of Union Men", was formed in June 1862 in Pekin, Illinois. Four months later, on November 22, 1862, the Union League of Philadelphia...
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    Susan Dey (category People from Pekin, Illinois)
    Best Actress in a Drama Series for L.A. Law in 1988. Dey was born in Pekin, Illinois, to Ruth Pyle (née Doremus) Dey, a nurse and Robert Smith Dey Ruth...
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  • school in Ivybridge, Devon Illinois Central College, main campus in East Peoria; two campuses in Peoria, one in Pekin, Illinois Independence Community College...
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    campuses: ICC - Peoria at 5407 North University, in Peoria ICC – Pekin at 225 Hannah Dr, in Pekin ICC – East Peoria at 1 College Dr, in East Peoria (main campus)...
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    presidential election. Estrada was the celebrity guest of the Pekin Marigold Festival in Pekin, Illinois, in September 2017. "Erik Estrada Biography (1949-)"....
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    Danny Lloyd (category People from Pekin, Illinois)
    Elizabethtown Community and Technical College in 2004. Lloyd was born in Tremont, Illinois. He was cast as Danny Torrance in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, a horror...
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  • Park, Illinois – $19,685 Arthur, Illinois – $19,683 Ogden, Illinois – $19,679 Buffalo, Illinois – $19,637 Pekin, Illinois – $19,616 Warren, Illinois – $19...
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    Harold H. Velde (category People from Pekin, Illinois)
    from University of Illinois Law School in 1937. Velde was admitted to the bar as a lawyer, taking up practice in Pekin, Illinois. Velde served as a private...
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    supported by Carle Health Peoria - Pekin Hospital in Pekin, Illinois, Advocate Eureka Hospital in Eureka, Illinois, and the Hopedale Medical Complex Hospital...
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    Larry Kenney (category People from Pekin, Illinois)
    Pekin which is south of Peoria, Illinois, the son of George and Joyce Kenney. He has a brother, Steven, and a sister, Jody. He graduated from Pekin Community...
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    the James River in Virginia, Powerton Lake in Pekin, Illinois, and Lake Springfield in Springfield, Illinois. It is also found in some lakes in Florida....
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    is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. It is south of Pekin near the county border along Illinois State Route 29. The population was...
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    via Newspapers.com. "Pekin Wasn't Always a Welcoming Place". Pekin Daily Times. Pekin, Illinois: Local History Room of the Pekin Public Library. June...
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  • The Pekin Lettes is a fast-pitch softball team in Pekin, Illinois, and is the oldest member-sanctioned Amateur Softball Association team in the United...
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  • Pekin High School may refer to: Pekin Community High School (Illinois), a public school and district in Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois Eastern High School...
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    Pekin Daily Times is an American daily newspaper published in Pekin, Illinois. It is owned by Gannett. Several other newspapers started in the Pekin area...
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  • Pacific (who also has an interchange in Pekin, Illinois ("Crescent"). BNSF also has an interchange in Pekin, Illinois (also at "Crescent"), and the Tazewell...
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