- South Pekin Illinois was created to be a water, refueling and repair
station for the Chicago & North Western Railroad.
This is a picture of the train station.
A round house is a circular building for housing and repairing locomotives.
Our round house was destroyed in the tornado of 1938.
Charles Wubben was a man who got supplies by horse & buggy once a week in Pekin. That was before there were any grocery stores in South Pekin.
You might have seen a car like this in 1937.
The South Pekin airport is very small. Planes don't land very
often and sometimes people go skydiving.
