Galesburg

Galesburg
/gaylz"berrg/, n.
a city in NW Illinois. 35,305.

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      city, seat (1873) of Knox county, western Illinois, U.S. It lies about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Peoria. George Washington Gale, a Presbyterian minister for whom the city is named, selected the site for a college community. In 1836 the first settlers arrived, and in 1837 a charter was granted to Knox Manual Labor College (renamed Knox College in 1857); in 1930 it absorbed Lombard College, which had been founded by Universalists in 1851. The Knox campus was the site of the fifth Lincoln-Douglas debate (Lincoln-Douglas debates) on the slavery issue in 1858.

 Galesburg's economy is based mainly on agriculture (corn [maize], soybeans, and livestock) and manufacturing (household appliances, prefabricated metal buildings, rubber products, and textiles). Employment is also provided by a minimum-security prison (opened 1986). The city was the birthplace of Carl Sandburg (Sandburg, Carl), the poet and historian who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Abraham Lincoln. The small house where Sandburg was born and lived as a child has been restored and is a state historic site. The city's Carl Sandburg (community) College was opened in 1967, the year of Sandburg's death. Galesburg's Orpheum Theatre (opened 1916) was built using a variety of styles of architecture, with the front designed in French Second Empire style. The city has a museum and an annual festival (June) devoted to railroad history. Lake Storey, once a railroad-owned water reservoir, has been transformed into a recreational park. Snakeden Hollow State Fish and Wildlife Area is northeast. Inc. 1841. Pop. (2000) 33,706; (2006 est.) 31,738.
 

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