Galesburg
Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States. The city is 45 miles northwest of Peoria. At the 2020 census, its population was 30,052. Galesburg is the home of Knox College, a private four-year liberal arts college, and Carl Sandburg College, a community college named for native-born poet Carl Sandburg.
- City with 30,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 771 feet (235 metres)
- …has the IATA airport code GBG
- Description: county seat of Knox County, Illinois, United States
- Postal codes6140161402
- Also known as“Galesburg, IL”“Galesburg, Illinois”“Galesburgh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Galesburg station and Galesburg Railroad Museum.
Galesburg station
Railway station
Galesburg is an Amtrak intercity train station in Galesburg, Illinois, United States.
Galesburg Railroad Museum
Museum
The Galesburg Railroad Museum is a railroad museum in Galesburg, Illinois, United States.
Orpheum Theater
Theater building
The Orpheum Theatre, originally opened in August 1916…
Galesburg
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Latitude
40.9476° or 40° 56′ 51″ north
Longitude
-90.3712° or 90° 22′ 16″ west
UN/LOCODE
US GBG
Open location code
86GFWJXH+2G
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Galesburg” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غاليسبورغ (إلينوي)”
- Arabic: “غاليسبورغ”
- Basque: “Galesburg”
- Belarusian: “Гейлсберг”
- Belarusian: “Гейлсбэрг”
- Catalan: “Galesburg”
- Cebuano: “Galesburg”
- Chechen: “Гейлсбург”
- Chinese: “盖尔斯堡”
- Cornish: “Galesburg, Illinois”
- Cornish: “Galesburg”
- Croatian: “Galesburg”
- Czech: “Galesburg”
- Dagbani: “Galesburg”
- Danish: “Galesburg”
- Dutch: “Galesburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جاليسبورج”
- French: “Galesburg”
- Georgian: “გეილსბერგი”
- German: “Galesburg”
- Gilaki: “گیلزبرگ (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “گیلزبرگ”
- Haitian: “Galesburg, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Galesburg”
- Hausa: “Galesburg Il”
- Hausa: “Galesburg, Illinois”
- Hebrew: “גיילסברג”
- Hungarian: “Galesburg”
- Ido: “Galesburg, Illinois”
- Ido: “Galesburg”
- Irish: “Galesburg”
- Italian: “Galesburg”
- Japanese: “ゲイルズバーグ”
- Korean: “게일즈버그”
- Ladin: “Galesburg”
- Malayalam: “ഗെയ്ൽസ്ബർഗ്, ഇല്ലിനോയി”
- Malayalam: “ഗെയ്ൽസ്ബർഗ്”
- Mazanderani: “گیلزبرگ (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “گیلزبرگ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Galesburg”
- Newari: “गेल्सबर्ग, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “गेल्सबर्ग, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “गेल्सबर्ग”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Galesburg”
- Norwegian: “Galesburg”
- Persian: “گیلزبرگ، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “گیلزبرگ”
- Polish: “Galesburg”
- Portuguese: “Galesburg”
- Russian: “Гейлсберг”
- Serbian: “Гејлсбург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Galesburg, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Galesburg”
- Slovak: “Galesburg”
- Slovenian: “Galesburg, Illinois”
- Slovenian: “Galesburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “قیلزبرق، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Galesburg (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Galesburg”
- Swedish: “Galesburg, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Galesburg”
- Talysh: “Gejlsburg”
- Talysh: “Qeylsberq”
- Tatar: “Гейлсбург”
- Turkish: “Galesburg, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Galesburg”
- Ukrainian: “Гейлсбург”
- Urdu: “گیلزبرگ، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “گیلزبرگ”
- Uzbek: “Galesburg”
- Vietnamese: “Galesburg, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Galesburg”
- Volapük: “Galesburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Galesburg, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Galesburg”
- Welsh: “Galesburg, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Galesburg”
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