State of the City: Projects aplenty

Galesburg is bustling.During the 37th annual Community Thanksgiving Luncheon today, Mayor John Pritchard delivered a State of the City speech that painted Galesburg as a town of constant activity and production.

Starting with the Heart & Soul project, which is in phase one of a two year endeavor, Pritchard listed a planned Discovery Depot expansion, the city’s first Juneteenth Celebration, a planned YMCA expansion, the renovated Amtrak depot and newly built Galesburg Transit Facility as just a handful of major works that are either complete or are in progress now.

Not to mention all the school expansions, including the completion of Alumni Hall at Knox College an expansion of Costa and the construction of a new Silas Willard.

Following a history-packed keynote by local historian Rex Cherrington, the 2015 Thomas B. Herring Award was presented to former OSF St. Mary Medical Center CEO Richard Kowalski, who has served on numerous boards.

He tells WGIL it was good to hear the massive list of Galesburg projects and what it means for the town.

“When you sit down and have all those things reported at one time it sounds like a lot and it really is. When you hear it piecemeal during the year you’re not aware of how much that really is. So I thought it said a lot about the community and people that work in the community in various capacities.”

More than 130 movers and shakers were in attendance for the Galesburg Chamber of Commerce luncheon and speeches.

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