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Galesburg"s Morning News

Tune in to hear Galesburg"s Morning News with Tyler Gumm, Cameron Line, and Jay Redfern, weekdays 5 to 9 a.m., on 93.7 FM and 1400 AM WGIL. They will keep you updated on the latest news, events, sports, and weather, as well as feature conversations with news-makers and a wide variety of people involved in our community. Following the show, many of those conversations will then be featured here as podcasts.

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00:15:19

Knox County Drug Court, ahead of Saturday's Quarter...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/09/14

Bring quarters — that's the premise of Knox County Drug Court's third Quarter Auction, set for 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 1556 E. Fremont St. in Galesburg, with bidding starting at 5 p.m. Ahead of the event, Olivia McCoy and Jordan Petersen came into the WGIL studio to talk about how the 30-month program — which has worked with people facing prison sentences since 2008 — actually works, and why nobody is ever ordered into it. "You have to want to do this," McCoy

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00:10:16

Sandburg College at 60: a car show, a charity run and...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/09/11

Rodney Blue coached cross country at Carl Sandburg College from 2015 until his death in 2024, and the thing everyone remembers is the smile and the high five. It's on the T-shirts for the third annual Coach Rodney Blue Charitable Run, set for 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, on the Galesburg campus. Emma Smith, student engagement specialist, and Genny Stevens, director of student engagement and leadership, came into the WGIL studio to talk about that run, Sunday's Sandburg car show and a Sept. 24

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00:17:35

The Duncan family: three generations of Galesburg...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/09/10

Andy Duncan started a boxing club with one rule: hard work and a good attitude, no fee required. Nearly eighty years and three generations later, his family is still running the Galesburg Youth Athletic Club — and this Saturday, Sept. 12, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Galesburg, they're honoring the man who led it longest with the Carlos Duncan Classic. Weigh-ins start at 11 a.m., doors open at noon, and 15 amateur bouts get underway at 1 p.m. — admission is $15 for adults, $5 for kids 4 to 12,

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00:16:10

'The best place in the world for Stearman knowledge,'...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/09/09

Brett Anderson's grandfather flew P-47s in World War II, came home, and spent the rest of his life buying and selling airplanes. That meant Anderson grew up with access to one, logging flight time at 12 and flying solo by 16 with hundreds of hours already behind him. Today he flies a Boeing 737 for a living — and this week, he's in something Boeing built in 1935. Anderson flew his Stearman biplane in from Lakeville, Minnesota, for the 55th National Stearman Fly-In, running through Saturday at Harrel

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00:09:41

Rio Days returns Saturday at the village ballpark

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/09/08

Some of the equipment at the ballpark in Rio is original to the village school, which closed years ago. Brittany Miller, Bailey Lee and Danielle Bush are three moms in a village of a few hundred people who decided that wasn't good enough, so they brought back Rio Days — a community day that ran for 27 years before ending in 1997, until somebody found an old trophy and they decided to put it back into action. It returns Saturday, Sept. 12, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the ballpark in Rio: free admission,

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00:21:00

'They literally have nowhere to go' — Mayor Peter...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/09/08

Galesburg has more shelter beds than it did five years ago. The Rescue Mission is still full, some shelters still can't take families with children of certain ages, and there's still almost nowhere for someone outside the system to take a shower or wash clothes. Mayor Peter Schwartzman joined Galesburg's Morning News on Tuesday, Sept. 8, ahead of tonight's City Council meeting, and spent most of the hour on it: what the city funds, what the Rescue Mission carries, why the public library has become

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00:15:21

'Heck no, let's go big' — scarecrows are coming back...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/09/04

The first idea was to keep it small. Just the merchants, just to see if a scarecrow festival could work on Seminary Street again after more than a decade away. Then, as Candace D'Agnolo tells it, half the room said heck no, let's go big — and 14 businesses signed up off what was essentially a soft launch. That festival now kicks off Friday, Oct. 2, from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Seminary Street Historic District, the same night as a First Fridays that was supposed to happen in early September until a

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00:18:26

National Stearman Fly-In — the crop duster called The...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/09/03

Sitting at the Galesburg airport this week is a 600-horsepower Stearman that still works as a crop duster, one of very few left anywhere. It is called The Beast, and it will probably fly a demonstration or two before the week is out. It's one of roughly 75 or more vintage biplanes arriving from as far as New Jersey and California for the 55th National Stearman Fly-In, running Sept. 7 through 12 at the Harrel W. Timmons Galesburg Regional Airport. Tye Hammerle, president of the National Stearman

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00:19:17

'You're not going without me': the soldier who was in...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/09/03

Chuck Newton has been carrying Nov. 3, 2005, for almost 21 years. On Thursday morning he sat down in the WGIL studio and walked through all of it: the convoy that rolled out at 1 a.m., the two D-cell batteries and a length of wire that blew the Humvee onto its end, the four-foot crater he stepped into when he climbed out, the helicopter, the hospital, and the moment doctors told him there was nothing they could do for the man who had been sitting directly in front of him. Sgt. 1st Class Kyle B

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00:10:59

Lagtoberfest's 5K, stein hoisting and barrel rolling...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/09/02

The last time Reserve Artisan Ales ran a 5K alongside Lagtoberfest, the race went off at 8 a.m., and the timing didn't quite work. "People weren't ready to crush a beer and have some lunch at 9 a.m.," Lindsay Benedict said. So this year the race starts at 10. Lagtoberfest and the 5K return to downtown Galesburg on Saturday, Sept. 19, hosted by Reserve Artisan Ales owners Blake and Lindsay Benedict. The festival is free and runs all day at the brewery; the 5K, which benefits the Illinois Craft

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00:17:12

Andrew Brooks — Knoxville's new building project and...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/08/28

Dr. Andrew Brooks became superintendent of Knoxville School District 202 on July 1, nearly 26 years after teaching his first class in the district. He joined Galesburg's Morning News on Friday, Aug. 28, to talk about his first months on the job, including a new PK-8 building project set to break ground this month and a district budget he says has already turned a corner. They talked about: What Brooks has learned walking the halls and getting to know students and staff The district's new "Every Day,

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00:09:14

Cooke Park's opening, through the eyes of the people...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/08/27

Galesburg's Cooke Park officially opened Wednesday, Aug. 26, on the site of the former Cooke Elementary School. Mayor Peter Schwartzman spoke at the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and WGIL sat down separately with four Galesburg residents who grew up on the same ground: Ward 4 Alderman Dwight White, Margaret Gimenez, Jack Perez and Gayla Pacheco, the Galesburg native widely credited with leading the years-long push to build the park. They talked about: Why Mayor Schwartzman calls the park one of the

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00:13:29

Galesburg lands America's Got Talent act for 134th...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/08/25

Galesburg's Labor Day Parade — believed to be the nation's oldest continuously running Labor Day parade — turns 134 this year, stepping off at 10 a.m. Monday, Sept. 7, from Main and Chambers streets. Randy Bryan, president of the Galesburg Trades and Labor Assembly, and Jeff Maher, a Galesburg firefighter and the parade committee's co-chair, joined Galesburg's Morning News on Tuesday, Aug. 25, to preview this year's event — including a marquee act organizers spent nearly a decade trying to land

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00:17:26

Dr. Trent Ford, Illinois State Climatologist —...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/08/25

Illinois has already blown past its previous tornado record for the year — and the state's own climatologist says it's not part of any long-term trend, just a stretch of very bad luck. Dr. Trent Ford, the Illinois State Climatologist, joined Galesburg's Morning News to explain what's behind the state's record-breaking 2026, why Galesburg just had its wettest summer since 1993, and why he thinks this winter could feel a lot milder than usual. They talked about: Why Illinois has already smashed its

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00:13:32

John Anno — 'It's OK to Cry: A Widower's Journey'

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/08/24

John Anno was 39 when his wife, Meredith, died in December 2015, five weeks after a sudden diagnosis — just two months after their 15th wedding anniversary. She had just turned 40. The Galesburg man, a graduate of Galesburg High School and former operator of Anno & Son Towing, was left raising three teenagers largely on his own. Nearly a decade later, he runs online grief support groups with more than 40,000 members, and he's written it all down in a new memoir, "It's OK to Cry: A Widower's

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00:14:22

Galesburg Community Chorus — a powerful new season

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/08/21

The Galesburg Community Chorus, the oldest community music organization in the area, kicks off its 81st season with rehearsals Monday, Aug. 24, at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church in Galesburg — building toward a fall concert on Saturday, Nov. 21, that takes on one of the most emotionally powerful pieces the group has ever performed. Dr. Tim Pahel, the chorus' Artistic Director, and Will Culbertson, its board president, joined Galesburg's Morning News to talk about "Considering Matthew Shepard,"

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00:11:05

Birth to Five Illinois — a free resource guide for...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/08/20

Families across Knox, Henderson, Mercer, and Warren counties now have a free, one-stop place to find early childhood resources. Jim Walters, Regional Council Manager, and Alli Chasteen, Family and Community Engagement Specialist, both with Birth to Five Illinois: Region 33, joined Galesburg's Morning News to talk about a new online resource called Before K — and one surprising need they discovered along the way: some kids were showing up to school without clean clothes, because their families had

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00:18:20

Abingdon Community Festival organizers preview five...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/08/18

Mike Anderson, Doug Thomas and Steve Jones of the Abingdon Community Festival joined Galesburg's Morning News on Tuesday, Aug. 18, to preview this year's five-day event, running Wednesday through Sunday, Aug. 26-30, at the Abingdon fairgrounds. The festival is entirely volunteer-run and funded through donations, and organizers walked through a schedule that ranges from a kids' pageant to live pro wrestling. They talked about: The Boots & Bows Pageant, Wednesday at 6 p.m., for kids ages 4-8

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00:10:38

Galesburg Public Schools Foundation — back-to-school...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/08/18

Laurie Aten, program administrator for the Galesburg Public Schools Foundation, joined Galesburg's Morning News on Tuesday, Aug. 18, ahead of the foundation's 40th anniversary next year. Aten discussed the foundation's back-to-school giving, a recap of spring fundraising, and a preview of the Black-Out for Books fundraiser set for Friday, Oct. 2, when Galesburg hosts Quincy in football. They talked about: A staffing update, as the foundation approaches its 40th anniversary next year School supply

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00:13:21

City Matters — parks, jobs and the Aug. 17 Galesburg...

Galesburg"s Morning News ·

2026/08/17

Galesburg City Manager Eric Hanson joined Galesburg's Morning News on Monday, Aug. 17, ahead of tonight's 6 p.m. city council meeting at Galesburg City Hall, previewing a full agenda: a state grant application for Lincoln Park upgrades, next steps on the Standish Park redesign, and a development deal with ILPEA Industries. Hanson said the ILPEA agreement is designed to retain and grow jobs at the Galesburg facility, characterizing the deal as favorable to Galesburg over the company's South Carolina

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