Galesburg, Illinois Galesburg, Illinois "Welcome to Galesburg" sign Township Galesburg City Location of Galesburg inside Illinois Location of Galesburg inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Galesburg, Illinois Website: City of Galesburg Galesburg is a town/city in Knox County, Illinois, United States.
It is the governmental center of county of Knox County. Galesburg is home to Knox College, a private four-year liberal arts college, and Carl Sandburg College, a two-year improve college.
Galesburg City Township is an active township that is coterminous with the city.
Galesburg is the principal town/city of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Knox and Warren counties.
Galesburg was established by George Washington Gale, a Presbyterian minister from New York state who dreamed of establishing a manual workforce college (which became Knox College).
They assembled temporary cabins in Log City near current Lake Storey, just north of Galesburg, having decided that no log cabins were to be assembled inside the town limits.
Galesburg was home to the first anti-slavery society in Illinois, established in 1837, and was a stop on the Underground Railroad. The town/city was the site of the fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate, on a temporary speaker's platform attached to Knox College's Old Main building on October 7, 1858.
Galesburg was the home of Mary Ann "Mother" Bickerdyke, who provided hospital care for Union soldiers amid the American Civil War.
After the Civil War, Galesburg was the place of birth of poet, author, and historian Carl Sandburg, poet and artist Dorothea Tanning, and former Major League Baseball star Jim Sundberg.
Carl Sandburg's boyhood home is now directed by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency as the Carl Sandburg State Historic Site.
Throughout much of its history, Galesburg has been inextricably tied to the barns industry.
Local businessmen were primary backers of the first barns to connect Illinois' (then) two biggest metros/cities Chicago and Quincy as well as a third leg initially terminating athwart the river from Burlington, Iowa, eventually connecting to it via bridge and thence forward to the Western frontier.
A BNSF train passes through central Galesburg near the site of the former Santa Fe depot.
In the late 19th century, when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway connected its service through to Chicago, it also laid track through Galesburg, making this town/city one of mostly several of its size to be served by multiple barns s and even severaler to have multiple barns depots.
As of the method of the Maytag plant in fall of 2004, BNSF is once again the biggest private employer in Galesburg.
In addition, Galesburg was home to the pioneering brass era automobile business Western, which produced the Gale, titled for the town. Lombard College was positioned in Galesburg until 1930, and is now the site of Lombard Middle School.
The Carr Mansion in Galesburg was the site of a presidential cabinet meeting held in 1899 by U.S.
Galesburg is positioned at 40 57 8 N 90 22 7 W (40.952292, -90.368545). According to the 2010 census, Galesburg has a total region of 17.928 square miles (46.43 km2), of which 17.75 square miles (45.97 km2) (or 99.01%) is territory and 0.178 square miles (0.46 km2) (or 0.99%) is water. Climate data for Galesburg, IL, 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1896 present Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 4.9 3.5 1.3 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.7 3.8 14.3 It operates the California Zephyr, Carl Sandburg, Illinois Zephyr, and Southwest Chief daily from Chicago to Galesburg (Amtrak station) and points west.
Galesburg Transit provides bus service to the City of Galesburg.
There are 4 routes: Gold Express Loop, Green Central Loop, Red West Loop, & Blue East Loop. BNSF provides rail freight to Galesburg and operates a large hump yard 1.9 miles south of town. Galesburg is served by Interstate 74, whose route runs north to Moline, Illinois in the Quad Cities region, and to the southeast to Peoria, Illinois and beyond.
The Chicago Kansas City Expressway, also known as Illinois Route 110 (IL 110), runs through Galesburg, to the southwest it passes through Macomb, Illinois, the home of Western Illinois University, and towards Quincy, Illinois, before crossing into Missouri.
Route 34 joins Galesburg with Burlington, Iowa.
The Galesburg Municipal Airport provides general aviation access, while Quad City International Airport and General Wayne A.
Galesburg will soon be home to the National Railroad Hall of Fame.
Galesburg has many affairs and celebrations throughout the year.
Meet, shop, dine in beautiful Galesburg, Illinois.
Galesburg is the home of the Railroad Days festival held on the fourth weekend of June. The festival began in 1977 as an open home to the enhance from the then Burlington Northern.
The City of Galesburg started having street fairs to draw more citizens to town.
In 1981, the Galesburg Railroad Museum was established and opened amid Railroad Days.
In 2003 the town/city worked with small-town groups to revamp the festival and the Galesburg Railroad Museum resumed bus tours of the yards.
The Galesburg Railroad Museum has continued to furnish tours of the yards since then.
In 2010, the Galesburg Railroad Museum started offering a VIP tour of the yards, in which a select group of riders would be allowed in the Hump Towers and Diesel Shop and see the BNSF at work.
Midwest happens amid Railroad Days at the new Galesburg High School Fieldhouse. During Labor Day weekend in September, Galesburg hosts the Stearman Fly in. Also in September are the Great Cardboard Boat Regatta and the Annual Rubber Duck Race held at Lake Storey. On the third weekend of every August, a Civil war and Pre 1840s Rendezvous is held at Lake Storey Park.
According to legend, it was in Galesburg, at the Gaity Theatre in 1914 where the four Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Gummo) first received their nicknames.
Galesburg features prominently in The Mountain Goats' song Weekend in Western Illinois from the album Full Force Galesburg.
Galesburg is mentioned in the book The Prestige.
Writer Jack Finney, author of The Body Snatchers, uses Galesburg as a setting for a several of his time-travel tales.
Galesburg is mentioned in Stephen King's book Dolores Claiborne.
Galesburg is mentioned in Richard Bach's 1977 novel Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah.
Galesburg and Knox College are both mentioned by the character Walowick in Walter Dean Myers' novel Fallen Angels, about the Vietnam War.
An android (impersonating a guest character) in The Six Million Dollar Man episode "Day of the Robot" mentions that "his" father directed a gym in Galesburg.
President Barack Obama mentioned Galesburg amid his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and near the beginning of his 2010 State of the Union Address. President Obama also visited Galesburg High School in August 2011 to speak to students while in the region for his Midwestern bus tour. Baseball legend Jimmy Foxx lived out some of his last years as a greeter at a locally owned steak home in Galesburg.
In the film, Alexander (Reagan) plays for the minor-league Galesburg Boosters before being interchanged to the Chicago Cubs and then the St.
Birthplace of artist Stephen Prina, whose recent printed announcement Galesburg, Illinois+ documents an exhibition which portrays the town indirectly through books, memorabilia, photographs, pop culture references, and more. Main article: List of citizens from Galesburg, Illinois Galesburg has multiple airways broadcasts and newspapers bringing a mix of local, county-wide and nationwide news.
WGIL-AM, WAAG, WLSR-FM and WKAY-FM are all owned by Galesburg Broadcasting while Prairie Radio Communications owns WAIK-AM.
KZZ66 provides Weather Information for NOAA Weather Radio in the Galesburg area.
The Galesburg Register-Mail is the result of the consolidation of the Galesburg Republican-Register and the Galesburg Daily Mail in 1927.
KGB-Radio "Knox Galesburg Radio", https://knoxgalesburg.org "Did Galesburg businessmen really need to pay to bring the Santa Fe Railway to Town?".
"Stephen Prina Galesburg, Illinois+ ARTBOOK | D.A.P.
City of Galesburg The Galesburg Project lists famous Galesburgers and visitors.
Links to Galesburg history articles Galesburg Railroad Days Lincoln and Freedom: Lincoln-Douglas Debate in Galesburg 1994 reenactment of Lincoln-Douglas Debate in Galesburg televised by C-SPAN (Debate preview and Debate review) Galesburg Railroad Museum
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Cities in Illinois - Cities in Knox County, Illinois - Galesburg, Illinois micropolitan region - Populated places on the Underground Railroad - Ronald Reagan Trail - County seats in Illinois - Galesburg, Illinois - Populated places established in 1836 - 1836 establishments in Illinois
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