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Pekin is a city in and the county seat of Tazewell County in the U.S. state of Illinois. Located upon the Illinois River, Pekin is the largest city of Tazewell County and the second most populous municipality of the Peoria metropolitan area, after Peoria itself. As of the 2020 census, its population is 31,731. A little portion of the city limits extend into Peoria County. It is a suburb of Peoria and is share of the Peoria Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Pekin’s Mineral Springs Park is close Pekin Hospital and the Miller Senior Center. The city is the location of a high-rise residential power of the United Auto Workers; the location of the Pekin Federal Correctional Institution; and the headquarters of a regional insurance company, Pekin Insurance.

Farmer Jonathan Tharp, who came from Ohio, was the first non-native American resident of what would become Pekin, building a log cabin in 1824 upon a ridge above the Illinois River at a site near the present foot of Broadway Drive. Franklin School was higher erected near this site. Other settlers soon united him, including his father Jacob Tharp who arrived from Ohio in 1825. They lived near Chief Shabbona’s large Indian village of just about 100 wigwams, populated primarily by Potawatomi, which was situated along Gravel Ridge, on the eastern shore of what is today Pekin Lake in northwest Pekin.