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Tazewell County, Illinois

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49newspaper titles

0digitized titles

16historic places

1800earliest paper

1827formed

131,343pop. 2020

125cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory lists 49 newspaper titles published in Tazewell County, Illinois, with the earliest starting in 1800. None of these titles are currently digitized on Chronicling America. The National Register of Historic Places includes 16 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Pekin, Delavan, Washington.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers published in Tazewell

Library of Congress

49 newspaper titles

Title	Place	Years
Manito Community Press	Pleasant Plains, Green Valley, San Jose	1800–1999
The Deer Creek Progress	Deer Creek	1800–1999
Illinois Palladium	Pekin	1842–1899
Illinois Reveille	Pekin, Bloomington	1848–1854
The Delavan Advertiser	Delavan	1867–1918
Delavan Independent	Delavan	1869–1873
The Delavan Times	Delavan	1874–1893
Legal Tender	Pekin	1878–1999
The Daily Evening Post	Pekin	1886–1999
The Delavan Times-Press	Delavan	1893–1910
The Delavan Daily Times-Press	Delavan	1899–1899
The Green Valley Banner	Green Valley	1899–1999
The Armington Helper	Armington	1900–1964
The Hopedale Journal	Hopedale	1900–?
The Mackinaw Journal	Mackinaw	1900–1959
Mackinaw Gazette	Mackinaw	1901–1999
The East Peoria Post	East Peoria, Washington	1907–1924
The Delavan Tri-County Times	Delavan	1910–1918
The Home-Coming Daily	Washington	1910–1999
The Delavan Advertiser-Times	Delavan	1918–1928
Goodfield-Carlock Times	Morton	1921–1999
Illinois Valley Herald	East Peoria	1924–1929
East Side News	East Peoria	1926–1999
The East Peoria Courier	East Peoria	1927–1999
Hopedale Times-Review	Hopedale, Washington	1928–1953
The Delavan Advertiser-Times the Delavan Times	Delavan	1929–1929
The Delavan Times	Delavan	1929–?
The Delavan Times the Delavan Advertiser-Times	Delavan	1929–1929
The East Peoria-Creve Coeur Perfecter	East Peoria, Creve Coeur	1939–1999
The Bulletin	Creve Coeur	1940–1999
Creve Coeur Citizen	Creve Coeur	1946–1999
The Deer Creek News	Deer Creek	1948–1953
Creve Coeur Citadel	Creve Coeur	1953–1954
The Dee-Mack News	Mackinaw	1953–1953
Creve Coeur Citadel Edition of Tazewell County News	Morton	1954–1955
Citadel Community News	East Peoria	1955–1956
Citadel Community News and Courier-Clarion	East Peoria	1956–1956
The Hopedale Journal	Hopedale	1956–1959
The Mackinaw Valley News	Minier	1959–1969
East Peoria Courier	East Peoria	1980–1997
Daily Times	Pekin	1992–?
The Courier	Morton	1995–1996
East Peoria Times-Courier	East Peoria	1997–?
The Daily Record	East Peoria	1997–?
The Hopedale Mail	Hopedale	2020–?
The Hopedale Mail	Hopedale	2020–?
The Mackinaw Mail	Mackinaw	2020–?
The Mackinaw Mail	Mackinaw	2020–?
Mackinaw Enterprise-Gazette	Mackinaw	?–

Source: Library of Congress U.S. Newspaper Directory. “Digitized” links lead to page images on Chronicling America.

Coverage timeline

Newspapers

Each bar is one title’s publication span. brown = digitized on Chronicling America Open-ended runs extend to today.

18001856191319692026

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

10 of 16 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

16 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Allentown Union Hall	Allentown	Building	1988
Ayer Public Library	Delavan	Building	1998
Cemetery Road Bridge	Washington	Structure	1998
Delavan Commercial Historic District	Delavan	District	1991
Dement-Zinser House	Washington	Building	2002
Denhart Bank Building	Washington	Building	2005
Farm Creek Section NHL	East Peoria	Site	1992
Herget, Carl, Mansion	Pekin	Building	1992
Illinois Traction System Mackinaw Depot	Mackinaw	Building	1978
North Eighth Street Plaza	Pekin	Building	2015
Pekin Federal Building	Pekin	Building	1980
Peoria Lock and Dam Historic District	Creve Coeur	District	2004
St. Louis, Peoria and Northern Railroad Depot	Pekin	Building	2004
Tazewell County Courthouse	Pekin	Building	1985
Third St. Bridge	Delavan	Structure	1999
Waltmire Bridge	Tremont	Structure	1999

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Tazewell was formed in 1827 (1827-01-31) from unknown / original county.

TAZEWELL created from Non-County Area 6 attached to PEORIA, and Non-County Area 7 attached to SHELBY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Tazewell County population from 1830 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1830	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,716	7,221	21,470	29,666	33,221	38,540	58,362	76,165	99,789	132,078	128,485	131,343

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

125 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 125 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Antioch Cemetery	40.47986	-89.51143
Apostolic Christian Cemetery	40.60488	-89.46043
Apostolic Christian Church Cemetery Old	40.59095	-89.46868
Apostollic Christian Cemetery	None	None
Bailey Cemetery	None	None
Baker Cemetery	None	None
Bequaith Cemetery	40.52672	-89.70281
Bequaith Cemetery Number 2	40.51217	-89.70227
Bergen Cemetery	40.52843	-89.29645
Bever Cemetery	40.405	-89.47496
Birki Cemetery	None	None
Black Walnut Cemetery	None	None
Blum Cemetery	None	None
Boldoser Cemetery	None	None
Bratt Cemetery	40.32138	-89.62608
Breedlove Cemetery	40.42123	-89.69112
Briggs Cemetery	40.44014	-89.37829
Broadway Cemetery	40.4056	-89.30297
Broyhill Cemetery	None	None
Buckeye Cemetery	40.60096	-89.40312
Caldwell Cemetery	None	None
Champion Cemetery	None	None
Clark Cemetery	None	None
Curtis Cemetery	None	None
Danforth Cemetery	40.42726	-89.49593
Deacon Cemetery	40.59084	-89.50401
Deer Creek Presbyterian Cemetery	40.63184	-89.34748
Delzly Cemetery	40.55834	-89.45785
Dillon Cemetery	40.48799	-89.53526
Fagotte Cemetery	None	None
Farmdale Cemetery	40.66419	-89.47082
Farrey Cemetery	None	None
Ficht Cemetery	40.73059	-89.48593
Fisher Cemetery	None	None
Fondulac Cemetery	40.67598	-89.54784
Franks Cemetery	None	None
Freeman Cemetery	40.38207	-89.39181
Gaines Cemetery	40.46261	-89.35263
Gardenrest Cemetery	40.59039	-89.64246
Gerber School Cemetery	40.64532	-89.58899
Glendale Cemetery	40.69635	-89.41493
Glendale Memorial Gardens	40.53676	-89.58601
Glenwood Cemetery	40.48429	-89.31566
Green Valley Cemetery	40.40058	-89.64229
Griesemer Cemetery	40.4287	-89.41775
Groveland Evangelical Mennonite Cemetery	40.58898	-89.52203
Guth Cemetery	40.6925	-89.48571
Haas Cemetery	None	None
Haedicke Cemetery	None	None
Hainline-Albrecht Cemetery	None	None
Hardscrabble Cemetery	40.5942	-89.30782
Hawkins Cemetery	None	None
Hawley Cemetery	40.51896	-89.62946
Haynes Cemetery	40.53142	-89.62542
Hieronymus Cemetery	40.37095	-89.26727
Higgins Cemetery	None	None
Hill Cemetery	40.52841	-89.29704
Hillcrest Memory Gardens	40.64192	-89.40504
Hirstein Cemetery	40.64857	-89.44533
Hittle Grove Cemetery	40.36087	-89.35897
Hollands Grove Cemetery	40.7043	-89.49657
Holton Cemetery	None	None
Hopedale Mennonite Cemetery	40.42412	-89.43455
Hulse Cemetery	None	None
Keil Cemetery	None	None
Kimlers Cemetery	40.56825	-89.57718
King Cemetery	None	None
Lakeside Cemetery	40.58675	-89.64306
Lakeview Cemetery	40.59059	-89.63954
Landes Cemetery	40.56649	-89.49941
Latham Cemetery	None	None
Lilly Cemetery	40.53671	-89.28678
Lindsey Cemetery	40.52553	-89.29212
Mackinaw Cemetery	40.54012	-89.35448
May Cemetery	None	None
McClure Cemetery	40.47013	-89.38805
McClure Cemetery	40.47034	-89.38784
Meyer Cemetery	None	None
Miars Cemetery	40.50619	-89.54075
Miars Cemetery	None	None

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Hawley	40.51393	-89.64455
New Castle	40.57865	-89.3612

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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