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Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States.The city is 45 miles (72 km) northwest of Peoria.At the 2010 census, its population was 32,195. [4] It is the county seat of Knox County [5] and the principal city of the Galesburg Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Knox and Warren counties.
Congressional district. 17th. Website. www.knoxcountyil.com. Knox County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 49,967. [1] Its county seat is Galesburg. [2] Knox County comprises the Galesburg, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The Galesburg Historic District is a 496-acre (201 ha) historic district in Galesburg, Illinois. The district includes 1049 contributing buildings and contains the town's original plat as well as several older neighborhoods. [2] The section of the district south of North Street encompasses Galesburg's historic city center and its most ...
Bouhan. toward Savanna. Location. Galesburg is an Amtrak intercity train station in Galesburg, Illinois, United States. The station was originally built in 1984, after the razing of the large depot just south of the current site. It is located north of the large BNSF Railway classification yard. Just south the Illinois Zephyr and Carl Sandburg ...
The Galesburg Yard is a classification yard of the BNSF Railway south of Galesburg in Illinois. It dates back to a goods and classification yard of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad (CB&Q), which from 1905 developed into one of the largest classification yards in the USA. At the beginning of the 20th century, Galesburg developed into ...
Founded in 1846 by religious dissidents who emigrated from Sweden to establish a new way of life on the Illinois prairie, the colony was run as a commune until its dissolution in 1861. The Bishop Hill Colony was the landmark Swedish settlement in Western Illinois leading the large Swedish-American communities in Galesburg, Rock Island, and ...
July 4, 1961 [2] Old Main is the oldest building on the campus of Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. Completed in 1857, it is a distinctive Gothic Tudor design of Swedish architect Charles Ulricson. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 as one of the few surviving sites to host one of the famous 1858 Lincoln–Douglas debates.
ZIP codes. 61401, 61410, 61436. FIPS code. 17-095-28352. Galesburg City Township is one of twenty-one townships in Knox County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 32,195 and it contained 14,280 housing units. [2] It is coextensive with the city of Galesburg, which is mostly surrounded by Galesburg Township.