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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 61 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PEKIN  , a

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city and the
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county-seat of Tazewell county,
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Illinois, U.S.A., on the Illinois
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river, in the central
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part of the
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state, about 11 m . S. of
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Peoria, and about 56 m . N. of
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Springfield . Pop . (1910, 9897 . It is served by the
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Atchison,
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Topeka &
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Santa Fe, the
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Chicago &
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Alton, the Chicago, Peoria & St
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Louis, the Illinois Central, the
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Cleveland,
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Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis, the Peoria Railway Terminal
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Company, the Peoria & Pekin
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Union and (for
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freight between Peoria and Pekin) the Illinois Valley
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Belt
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railways . Situated in a
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rich agricultural region and in the Illinois coalfields, Pekin is a
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shipping point and
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grain
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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 .

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