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Galesburg Railroad Days welcomes the #1 Beatles tribute band – BritBeat - to The Orpheum Theatre stage during the annual festival at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 25.
It’s an Our Quad Cities News traffic alert. According to a release from the City of Galesburg, the Lincoln St. railroad crossing between Grove St. and North St. will be closed for repairs on ...
GALESBURG, Ill. (KWQC) - Galesburg will be hosting the annual Railroad Days beginning Thursday evening, the city says. The summer festival has been a tradition since 1978, according to a media ...
Galesburg City Council to vote on Railroad Crossing Elimination program, future of traffic crossings.
On Thursday, June 15th, we are interviewing Mae Gilliland Wright, Director of Marketing and Communications, about why Galesburg is the designated home of the National Railroad Hall of Fame and ...
Galesburg's annual Railroad Days returns Thursday, so people are gearing up for the festivities. But, last year's shots fired incident is still in people's thoughts. TV6 spoke with a resident and ...
If approved, it would cost the nonprofit just one dollar to lease 25,000 feet of city property on Seminary Street.
Since the first train came in 1851, Galesburg has been a railroad town. Carl Sandburg’s father worked for the Burlington shops, and today the BNSF Railway Co. is the city’s largest employer ...
The city is finally ready to signal full steam ahead for a plan to silence train horns in Galesburg. Aldermen will meet for a special work session Monday to put meat on the bones of the proposa… ...
GALESBURG - Artist Ron Hatch has been creating the annual Railroad Days poster for about three decades, and a look at his combined work of 29 posters since 1985, is an engaging view of locomotive ...
GALESBURG, Ill. — H-o-o-o-o-o-o-t. The next time you’re in town, plan on hearing a railroad whistle. There are 160 trains a day through Galesburg, and they sound their whistles at least a half ...
U.S. Army Cpl. Paul Eugene Hoots was 25 years old when he went missing in action after his unit engaged the North Korean People's Army in the vicinity of Ch’onan, South Korea, on July 7, 1950.