South Pekin, Illinois (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. South Pekin is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,162 at the 2000 census and is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area. South Pekin was founded at around the turn of the 19th century. The Chicago and North Western Railway built a switching yard and roundhouse (destroyed in Midwestern tornado) for its steam trains about five miles south of Pekin, Illinois. The people of Pekin did not want "railroad people" in their town, and so the first boxcars were taken off the tracks and converted into homes along with some folks living in tents. The Chicago and North Western also had a small bunkhouse next to the tracks where railroad worker could stop for the night. (It was demolished in summer of 2008.)