From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
Discovery Depot has embarked upon an ambitious three-year, $750,000 project that addresses both the interior and exterior of the children’s museum. “What we do inside will be a huge ‘wow’ for the community,” said Discovery Depot Executive Director Denise Bradburn…
Discovery Depot has a KnoxCorps fellow primarily working on obtaining grants. “Knox College and the Galesburg Community Foundation placed a person here, because they believe in this project,” Bradburn said. Read more…
From: WGIL (Galesburg, IL)
Knox College, the Galesburg School District, and the First Presbyterian Church have teamed up to be a part of “Blessings in a Backpack”… a national organization that [helps provide] students the food they need during the day [even when school is not in session.]
Retired District-205 Assistant Superintendent Joel Estes is now in the Education Studies Department at Knox College, and says while schools give students meals during the day, many kids don’t have much more than that… “The idea is we’re gonna provide food for kids over the weekend… In total, Estes says the group hopes to help feed 150 students in town, but takes roughly 80 dollars only to feed one kid for a year, so donations are currently being accepted. Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
[Galesburg Register-Mail editor Tom Martin] went through some of the percentages and vote totals locally and across the state… Precinct 13, which contains the area around Knox College, was the only precinct with less than 50 percent turnout in the city…
The Knox News Team, a group of journalism students from Knox College led by visiting Professor Sue Deans, completed a poll in October showing Galesburg voters favored Obama by a 57.7 percent. The actual total came in at 63 percent for Obama… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
A recent Knox College News Team poll showed 59 percent of 213 registered voters [in Galesburg] interviewed said they would choose Obama [for President]… The Knox College journalism class published their findings of Obama’s 57-27 lead over Romney in The Register-Mail on Oct. 28… Since 1992, the Democrat to receive the lowest percentage of the overall Galesburg vote was President Bill Clinton, with 53 percent of the working-class city’s vote when he unseated incumbent President George Bush in 1992… Read more…
From: The Register Mail (Galesburg, IL)
[The Knox News Team analyzes the results of its pre-election polling, which show that] Galesburg voters remained supportive of the president [Barack Obama] despite his difficult road to re-election…
Andrew Civettini, professor of political science at Knox College, agreed that Obama likely gets a home state bounce in Galesburg, but also pointed out that Galesburg has directly benefited from the president’s economic policies. “Just down the road from the college they’re working on a major road project (the West Main Street overpass of the railroad tracks) made possible by the stimulus package,” Civettini said. “Western Illinois has done quite well with the stimulus and some people could certainly be thinking about that.”… Read more…
From: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
Columnist Bill McClellan writes: Edward W. Bilhorn was born in April 1918. He was raised in Webster Groves. He attended the University of Illinois and majored in mechanical engineering. He was in the ROTC… In April 1942, before shipping overseas, he married a young woman he had met on a blind date at a fraternity party. Elizabeth was from the south side of Chicago. At the time she met at Edward, she was a student at Knox College in Galesburg. She graduated from Knox in 1941…
Edward died in June 1973. His death came at a busy time for the family. Here is the way that week broke down: Saturday, Terry graduated from Knox College. Tuesday, Edward died. His body was cremated. In the hectic week after Edward’s death, nobody picked up his ashes… The unclaimed ashes came to the attention of a project called Missing in America… So on Thursday [October 25, 2012] the children of Edward Bilhorn [including James, Knox Class of 1969 and Terry, Knox Class of 1973] gathered in the chapel at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery… It was a nice service in a lovely setting… Read more…
