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The owner of the rapidly deteriorating and abandoned Sandburg Mall, has high hopes and big plans for the one-time retail center of Galesburg.

The incident happened just before midnight Sunday on East Eighth Street near National City Boulevard

A local economic development official says the creation of a $40 million state grant program to incentivize the creation of "megasites" could be beneficial to the Galesburg and the Knox County area.

The city of Galesburg created a grant program this year that awarded funding to nine new businesses that have opened or plan to open in the new year

The Galesburg Selfie Museum is a new Galesburg, IL, business being brought forward by local residents Gogo Kupa and her husband Yannick Kapita.

The Knox County Broadband Steering Team is asking county residents to go online to the new National Broadband Map to verify the location of their home or business and the accuracy of the information regarding the availability of high-speed internet service. If the location and availability information is not accurate, residents can use the interactive map to lodge a challenge with the Federal Communications Commission, which is seeking this feedback to improve the accuracy of the map. "We&...

Galesburg city council will consider a $200,000 grant for the FCA manufacturing company in order to incentivize them creating a facility and jobs in Galesburg.

Plans are in place to bring another manufacturing company to Galesburg, supplying many well-paying jobs to the community. The Galesburg City Council on Monday will consider a $200,000 grant for Moline-based company FCA Packaging LLC to take over the location formally home to Phoenix Industries LLC at 1200 Monmouth Boulevard. FCA, founded in 1985, provides custom industrial packaging solutions and builds custom boxes, crates, skids, and pallets out of wood, corrugated cardboard, plastics, foam, a...

Galesburg City Council meets tonight at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall will a full agenda. Some of the items Aldermen will address tonight include- an agreement that would change Galesburg Police to a 12-hour shift schedule. Aldermen would technically be approving an addendum to the Collective Bargaining Agreement with the Public Safety Employees Organization. Both the city and PSEO came to an agreement on Aug. 29 on this change. The policy change to 12-hour shifts is effectively a recruitment strategy,...

A former popular downtown bar will soon reopen with a new owner, a new name and an expanded food menu. Opie's Bar and Grill expects to open in late October or early November at 158 N. Broad St., former home of Fat Fish Pub. Opie's will offer traditional and unique grill items for lunch and dinner six days a week. It's Opie Carter's first venture into restaurant ownership, but won't be her first time in the food service business. Her parents ran the Watering Hole at Oak R...