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Until 1981 it had a high school athletic team called the Chinks and a roller skating arena called the Chink Rink. The decision to change the team name to the Pekin Dragons is still remembered bitterly by certain residents, as shown by this apparently genuine email sent to a liberal website: “I graduated from Pekin Community High School in 1960.
Aug 24, 2005 · Found this online: "Pekin, a town in central Illinois not far from Peoria, is thought to be named for the Chinese capital. Its high school teams were the Chinks until 1981, when public sentiment forced a change to Dragons." I first heard of the Chinks in the mid-60s and was astonished by the name... even then.
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Dec 5, 1994 · Pat Hagen, a Pekin High graduate, invoked the name of the town’s most famous native son, Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen. “He was born a Chink,” Hagen said, “he died a ...
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Dec 30, 2023 · Changed in 1980 to the Pekin Dragons, my high school’s mascot used to be the Pekin Chinks. Romanticized legends told that if you dug a hole in the ground in Pekin, Illinois and kept digging, you would end up in Peking (now Beijing), China. There is no factual proof yet to be found of how Pekin actually obtained its name.
I presume that Pekin Illinois HS has dropped its long-standing team nickname, The Chinks. Pekin used to be one of Illinois top basketball schools. The town was named Pekin because someone, long ago and not too bright, figured it was exactly on the...
This study also involved on-site ethnographic observations of Pekin's customs and traditions. Secondary research was also examined to provide a timeline outlining the school's mascot conversion from Chinks to Dragons.
Mascot controversy. From the high school's founding until the 1981 school year, the football team was officially named the "Pekin Chinks ", represented by a red dragon logo, done in part to represent the town of Pekin's wrongly supposed relation to the Chinese city of Peking.
