The Tazewell County Courthouse, located on Court Street in Pekin, is the

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serving Tazewell County,

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. The courthouse was built in 1914 to provide a larger space for county government, which had outgrown the previous courthouse and had begun to spread across multiple buildings.

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architects Deal & Ginzel designed the courthouse; the pair was also responsible for two other county courthouse designs in Illinois, in Moultrie County and

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. The firm designed the courthouse in the Beaux-Arts style; their design features an arched entrance and windows on the first floor,

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s with

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s on the upper two stories, and an entablature and balustrade along the roof. The courthouse was added to the

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on November 14, 1985.

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Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois Beaux-Arts architecture in Illinois Government buildings completed in 1914 National Register of Historic Places in Tazewell County, Illinois County courthouses in Illinois Pekin, Illinois {{TazewellCountyIL-NRHP-stub