Galesburg

Galesburg is a city in , United States. The city is 45 miles northwest of . 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.
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  • Type: City with 30,100 residents
  • Description: county seat of Knox County, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Galesburg, IL”, “Galesburg, Illinois”, and “Galesburgh”
  • Postal codes: 61401 and 61402

Places of Interest

Highlights include Galesburg station and Galesburg Railroad Museum.

Railway station
Photo: jimmy thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Galesburg is an Amtrak intercity train station in Galesburg, , . The station was originally built in 1984, after the razing of the large depot just south of the current site.

Museum
Photo: Peter Van den Bossche, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a railroad museum in Galesburg, Illinois, . The museum is located at 211 South Seminary Street. Its collection includes CB&Q 4-6-4 3006, a Pullman "Meath" car, Railway Express RPO Combination Mail & Baggage Car…

Theater building
The Orpheum Theatre, originally opened in August 1916, stands on Kellogg Street in downtown Galesburg, . The Orpheum's elegance and long history made the theatre a landmark in Galesburg which boasts other landmarks such as Carl Sandburg's Birthplace, the , and Knox College, which hosted an Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debate.

Galesburg

Latitude
40.9476° or 40° 56′ 51″ north
Longitude
-90.3712° or 90° 22′ 16″ west
Population
30,100
Elevation
771 feet (235 metres)
IATA airport code
GBG
United Nations Location Code
US GBG
Open location code
86GFWJXH+2G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 151456364
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4893392
Wiki­data ID
Q782574
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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: “Galesburg”
  • 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”
  • “Galesburg”

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