美国伊利诺伊州有一座城市叫“北京（Pekin）”，请问这个名字是怎么来的？

  After a county surveyor laid out a "town site" in 1829, an auction of the town plat and site was held in Springfield, Illinois。

   The village site was awarded to Major Isaac Perkins, Gideon Hawley, William Haines and Major Nathan Cromwell。 Mrs。 Ann Eliza Cromwell selected the name of the city, naming it after Beijing, China, then spelled "Peking" or "Pekin"。

   Such spellings are still common in German and French。 Ann Eliza Cromwell also named many of the city streets after the wives and daughters of early Pekin settlers。

   这儿抄了一段Pekin 镇的历史，看来是在1829 年一位买了当时那个地区城镇规划下的镇区一块地的人 Cromwell 的太太 Ann Eliza 将那儿以中国北京命名。 但把它拼成 Pekin。 （这种拼法，如今在德文及法文中仍然普遍）。