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Encyclopedia Britannica



PEKIN

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 61 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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