PEKIN  , a See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Tazewell county, See also:

• ILLINOIS

Illinois, U.S.A., on the Illinois See also:

• RIVER

river, in the central See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, about 11 m . S. of See also:

• PEORIA

Peoria, and about 56 m . N. of See also:

• SPRINGFIELD

Springfield . Pop . (1910, 9897 . It is served by the See also:

• ATCHISON

Atchison, See also:

• TOPEKA

Topeka & See also:

• SANTA

Santa Fe, the See also:

• CHICAGO
• CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF

Chicago & See also:

• ALTON

Alton, the Chicago, Peoria & St See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis, the Illinois Central, the See also:

• CLEVELAND
• CLEVELAND (or CLEIVELAND), JOHN (1613—1658)
• CLEVELAND, BARBARA VILLIERS, DUCHESS OF (1641-1709)
• CLEVELAND, STEPHEN GROVER (1837-1908)

Cleveland, See also:

• CINCINNATI

Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Peoria Railway Terminal See also:

• COMPANY

Company, the Peoria & Pekin See also:

• UNION
• UNION (known locally as Union Hill and officially as Town of Union)

Union and (for See also:

• FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight between Peoria and Pekin) the Illinois Valley See also:

• BELT (a word common to Teutonic languages, the Old Ger. form being bale, from which the Lat. balteus probably derived)
• BELT, THOMAS (1832-1878)

Belt See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways . Situated in a See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich agricultural region and in the Illinois coalfields, Pekin is a See also:

• SHIPPING

shipping point and See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain See also:

• MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market of considerable importance, and has various manufactures . The value of the factory products in 1905 was $1,121,130 . Pekin was first settled about 1830, was incorporated in 1839, and re-incorporated in 1874 .