All Commerce & Recreation in Pekin

This is the perfect place to buy your fresh, local harvest. Support local vendors by buying your produce weekly at this market located in the Pekin Park District’s Miller Center Parking Lot! Read more...

Featuring all natural, locally raised and grown, Illinois products: Farm fresh milk, angus beef, pork, chicken, eggs, turkey, breads, cheeses, wine, fruits and vegetables, honey, jams and jellies, homemade baked goods, and so much more! We also have the Black Angus Cafe located inside our store. The cafe serves lunch M-F 11-2. On Saturdays they serve breakfast 8-10:30 and lunch Read more...

Featuring all natural, locally raised and grown Illinois products: farm fresh milk, Angus beef, pork, chicken, eggs, turkey, breads, cheeses, wine, fruits and vegetables, honey, jams and jellies, homemade baked goods, fudge, a full line of organic baking supplies and staples, and much more. Let us be your year-round, one-stop shopping experience for all natural, all locally raised and grown, Read more...

This 459-acre site is comprised of oak-hickory forest and open shrubland. Running Deer Trail, an extensive hiking/mountain biking/cross country trail, runs through the park, crossing several cobble-bottomed brooks and creeks. In 2003, Dirksen Park along with McNaughton Park, were entered into the Illinois Land and Water Reserve Program, designed to protect and improve woodland habitats using restoration management techniques. Dirksen Read more...

McNaughton Park’s 850 acres contain some of the most impressive specimens of white oak in the entire Illinois River Valley. This mix of oak savanna and old growth forests is also a great spot for songbirds, butterflies, and wildflowers. Common birds, like Eastern Bluebird and American Goldfinch are often seen as well as some of the less common species, like Read more...