Pekin Community High School

Pekin will no longer provide school bus service for Pekin Community High School and District 108 students at the end of this school year. Getting to the finish line of the arrangement has been difficult.

The Pekin City Council on Monday approved paying bonuses totaling $10,000 to school bus department administrators to encourage them to stay with the city until it gets out of the school bus business.

The iconic but aging scoreboards at Pekin Community High School's Memorial Stadium and Dawson Hawkins Gym are now a thing of the past. They've been replaced with LED digital display scoreboards.

A class project by some Pekin Community High School juniors aims to educate the public about the Underground Railroad’s place in Tazewell County history.

A student project honoring Tazewell County veterans will be on display at the Pekin Public Library this summer.

Pekin High School athletic director Cole Stoner has been reinstated from administrative leave after a March arrest for drinking alcohol while driving with his child as a passenger.

The event reached a pinnacle this school year. The team-record $27,169 raised for the Susan G. Komen Memorial was the most in the country for a high school volleyball team fundraiser for Komen.