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Galesburg

American  
[geylz-burg] / ˈgeɪlz bɜrg /

noun

  1. a city in NW Illinois.


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Later, as a scholarship student at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., he spent many Sundays preaching at area churches.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

White had Optetrak implants inserted into both her knees at a Galesburg, Illinois, hospital in June 2012.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2022

In Hill’s story, the Galesburg Grabber is described as a fat man, with overt parallels to Gacy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2022

Hope Ervin, 21, from Galesburg, Illinois, told FOX News that she and her boyfriend adopted Sylvie, a Shiba Inu, in July from Paws Jackson, an animal shelter in Jacksonville, Illinois.

From Fox News • Aug. 23, 2021

The union was not consummated because the anti-unionistic construction which Iowa put on the Galesburg Rule was disavowed within the General Council and never acknowledged and approved of by this body as such.

From American Lutheranism Volume 2: The United Lutheran Church (General Synod, General Council, United Synod in the South) by Bente, F. (Friedrich)

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