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Shortly after in 1996, area code 773 was created for the residential parts of the city of Chicago, while downtown kept area code 312. Area code 847 exhausted its numbers quickly, so that an overlay area code, 224, was implemented in 1996 for relief. However, mandatory ten-digit dialing was not in effect until 2002. In March 2007, an overlay ...
Pekin (/ ˈ p iː k ɪ n / 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 largest city of Tazewell County and the second most populous municipality of the Peoria metropolitan area in north-central Illinois, after Peoria itself. [4]
Groveland is an unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States.It has a small library, a school which is now a church, gas station, war memorial, country store with restaurant and chapel, churches, Pyramid Printing Inc. and a handful of other small businesses.
Location of Tazewell County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Tazewell County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
North Pekin is a village in Tazewell County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,573 at the 2010 census. The population was 1,573 at the 2010 census. North Pekin is a suburb of Peoria and is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area .
A 19-year-old Pekin man has been arrested and is being held at Tazewell County Jail following the death of a nine-week-old child.
South Pekin has seen its share of disasters, starting with flooding during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.The town's worst disaster was the F3 tornado of March 30, 1938, that destroyed much of South Pekin and killed nine of the village’s residents; [11] [12] it remains the deadliest tornado in Central Illinois over 85 years later.
When a tornado caused extensive damage in the greater Peoria area, Pekinites provided key assistance to residents whose homes were damaged.