It was hard not to be in awe of the new Galesburg Public Library, which opened to the public for the first time Wednesday. That includes Galesburg Public Library Board president Laurie Muelder, who said even though she followed its construction over the last two years, the finished product was better than she imagined. Muelder talked Wednesday with Will Stevenson on Galesburg's Morning News.
- Posted January 27, 2026
Knox College is bringing two prominent thinkers—progressive intellectual Cornel West and conservative scholar Robert P. George—to Galesburg for a…