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'Heck no, let's go big' — scarecrows are coming back to Seminary Street
The first idea was to keep it small. Just the merchants, just to see if a scarecrow festival could work on Seminary Street again after more than a de…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
National Stearman Fly-In — the crop duster called The Beast, and a pilot sent up unarmed on 9/11
Sitting at the Galesburg airport this week is a 600-horsepower Stearman that still works as a crop duster, one of very few left anywhere. It is calle…
3 weeks ago
'You're not going without me': the soldier who was in the Humvee with Kyle Wehrly
Chuck Newton has been carrying Nov. 3, 2005, for almost 21 years. On Thursday morning he sat down in the WGIL studio and walked through all of it: th…
3 weeks ago
Lagtoberfest's 5K, stein hoisting and barrel rolling return to downtown Galesburg
The last time Reserve Artisan Ales ran a 5K alongside Lagtoberfest, the race went off at 8 a.m., and the timing didn't quite work. "People weren't re…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Andrew Brooks — Knoxville's new building project and financial turnaround
Dr. Andrew Brooks became superintendent of Knoxville School District 202 on July 1, nearly 26 years after teaching his first class in the district. H…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
Cooke Park's opening, through the eyes of the people who grew up there
Galesburg's Cooke Park officially opened Wednesday, Aug. 26, on the site of the former Cooke Elementary School. Mayor Peter Schwartzman spoke at the …
4 weeks ago
Galesburg lands America's Got Talent act for 134th Labor Day Parade
Galesburg's Labor Day Parade — believed to be the nation's oldest continuously running Labor Day parade — turns 134 this year, stepping off at 10 a.m…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Dr. Trent Ford, Illinois State Climatologist — Illinois' wild year, and what it means for Galesburg
Illinois has already blown past its previous tornado record for the year — and the state's own climatologist says it's not part of any long-term tren…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
John Anno — 'It's OK to Cry: A Widower's Journey'
John Anno was 39 when his wife, Meredith, died in December 2015, five weeks after a sudden diagnosis — just two months after their 15th wedding anniv…
1 month ago
Galesburg Community Chorus — a powerful new season
The Galesburg Community Chorus, the oldest community music organization in the area, kicks off its 81st season with rehearsals Monday, Aug. 24, at 7 …
1 month ago