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Galesburg City Council is expected to take up a tabled item to study schematics and program designs in developing Churchill Junior High into a community center. The contract for Farnsworth Group was originally brought to the Council in March but was tabled until after a new council was to be seated. This will be the first meeting with three new Council members, all three of whom ran on Churchill not being an appropriate site for a community center. The contract would be for $76,000. If Council does approve the study the initial phase would take 8 weeks to complete, which would be followed by a...

An icon of sport, class, and compassion in Galesburg, Carlos Duncan passed away Saturday at the age of 80. Duncan was a Galesburg native who graduated from Galesburg High School in 1959. Getting started in boxing at 7, he would become a Golden Gloves winner, and taught and trained boxers for 50 years. But more than just boxing, Duncan used the sport to teach lessons of life, discipline, respect, and stamina to those he worked with, particularly at the Galesburg Youth Athletic Club. The 4th floor of the Weinberg Arcade is the GYAC's home, first started in 1946 by Duncan's father, Howa...

Galesburg Police just before 8:30 pm on Sunday, May 22nd, responded to the Weinberg Arcade in downtown Galesburg for a well-being check. Dispatch advised officers a male subject had climbed the fire escape of the building. Knox County Sheriff's deputies were already on the scene speaking with 46-year-old Kevin M. Wilson of Galesburg who was on the roof of the building standing on the ledge. According to police reports, Wilson was heavily intoxicated. Sheriff's deputies and officers told Wilson to come down and he slowly complied. When Wilson reached the bottom, law enforcement asked ...

Galesburg Police investigated a report of Burglary to Bullis & Sundburg Insurance Company on the ground level of the Weinberg Arcade on Friday the 13th. An employee told police she left her personal office to show prospective renters an office space in the building. When she returned, someone had been in her office. She found a Casey's bag with trash and food near her desk, and a coffee can containing several keys to the building to be missing. Police viewed security video of a male and a female suspect walking up the building's fire escape about 40 minutes prior to GPD's ar...

Galesburg Youth Athletic Club will reopen their doors at the Weinberg Arcade, Monday, April 12. Like many other entities, the pandemic had them shut down for an extended period. The regular boxing, fitness and Rock Steady Boxing will all restart. GYAC president Carlos Duncan, student and coach Rich Norton and Rock Steady Boxing student John Peterson joined