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Conversations originally heard during Galesburg In Focus, which airs Saturday mornings 8-9 a.m. on 93.7 FM and 1400 AM, WGIL. The interview program includes guests who talk about local topics like sports, not-for profit groups and organizations, businesses, local history, community events and more. It's an audio snapshot of our community.
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Signup to Generate a PitchConversations originally heard during Galesburg In Focus, which airs Saturday mornings 8-9 a.m. on 93.7 FM and 1400 AM, WGIL. The interview program includes guests who talk about local topics like sports, not-for profit groups and organizations, businesses, local history, community events and more. It's an audio snapshot of our community.
Galesburg In Focus is hosted by WGIL. The show has published 200 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Domestic violence in Knox County: new Illinois protections and how to help someone you know" (26 October 2026, 42 minutes), "Stuck on the roadside? Abingdon tow operator Nick Fox on who to call and what to do" (19 October 2026, 30 minutes), and "Solvera Health brings patient rides and pharmacy delivery to Galesburg" (17 October 2026, 15 minutes).
Galesburg In Focus publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 200 episodes.
Booking probability for Galesburg In Focus is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Galesburg In Focus requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Galesburg In Focus's contact route on record: verified email.
WGIL hosts Galesburg In Focus, a news podcast with 200 episodes published.
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Domestic violence isn't only physical. It can be a partner who holds onto someone's phone, controls the bank account, or checks their location with every move. Dylana Larson, assistant director of Safe Harbor Family...
Galesburg In Focus
After 28 years in the John Deere foundry in Waterloo, Iowa, Nick Fox retired and bought a tow truck. Today the owner of Fox Towing in Abingdon runs four trucks and works the shoulder of the interstate, where a passing...
Galesburg In Focus
Patients at Solvera Health's Galesburg clinic, 256 S. Soangetaha Road, can now get a ride to their appointment, a ride back home and their medications delivered, just by asking when they call. On Galesburg In Focus...
You don't need a family history to develop breast cancer, says Jody Henry, lead multimodality imaging tech at OSF HealthCare St. Mary Medical Center in Galesburg and Holy Family Medical Center in Monmouth. "You may not...
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Fifteen years ago, Beth Looney lost her husband to suicide. Today, she works as a behavioral health navigator for OSF Healthcare, helping connect people across the region to mental health care — and she says the most...
Rinsing raw chicken under the tap feels like the responsible thing to do. It's also one of the most common food safety mistakes people make, according to the Knox County Health Department — the running water just...
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Some of the veterans going up Friday morning at the Galesburg airport haven't flown in half a century, and a few of them need help just getting to the plane. They'll ride in the open front cockpit of a World War II-era...
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Sgt. 1st Class Kyle B. Wehrly of Galesburg was killed by a roadside bomb in Ashraf, Iraq, on Nov. 3, 2005, at the age of 28. On Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, several hundred people gathered on the west side of the Galesburg...
Discovery Depot Children's Museum's purse auction wasn't born out of glamour — it was born out of survival. Executive Director Denise Gerstenberger launched Purses to Inspire in 2020 to keep the museum funded through a...
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About 40% of women have dense breast tissue, which can make it harder to spot abnormalities on a standard mammogram. Blaine Clark, director of medical imaging operations at OSF HealthCare St. Mary Medical Center in...
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Medical care can start as low as $10 a visit at the Knox Community Health Center, no matter whether a patient has insurance. Reina Reyes, the center's chief operations officer, and Staci Simpson, its director of...
You can get sunburned in the shade. You can get sunburned on a cloudy day. And if you commute to work, your car is quietly frying the left side of your face every day, whether you notice or not. Dermatology nurse...
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Twenty years ago, a handful of city employees who loved cars started a cruise downtown. When they moved on, a small car club with no membership fee and a "come to two meetings, you're in" policy picked it up rather than...
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The Knox County Fair turns 175 this year — and it's going out with a bang. Literally. Knox County Fair Board members Josh Smith, Ted Inness, Mallory Tolley, and Darcy Thorpe joined Galesburg In Focus on July 4 to...
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Tompkins State Bank President C.L. Cummings joins Galesburg In Focus host Chris Postin for a wide-ranging conversation on community banking — what it means, why it matters, and how a bank founded in Avon in 1884 has...
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OSF HealthCare Managing Medical Director Dr. Josh Carpenter joins Galesburg In Focus host Chris Postin for a Men's Health Month conversation on the health risks facing men, why they avoid preventative care, and what...
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Lauren Deppee, marketing manager and speech therapist, and Sarah Meyers, executive director and owner, from Way to Grow Pediatric Therapy joined Chris Postin on Galesburg In Focus on Saturday, June 6. Way to Grow, based...
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The Railtown Rumble is rolling into Lincoln Park in Galesburg tomorrow, Sunday, June 7, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. — and if history is any guide, the prime parking spots will be filling up by 7. Greg "Chops" Bacon, Rod Run...
Galesburg In Focus
A new specialty clinic is now open in Galesburg for patients dealing with wounds that won't heal — and the director says the most important thing patients can do is not wait. Audra Baker, director of OSF Wound Care at...
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Chris Rennau has spent more than 20 years in agricultural and commercial lending — working for one of the largest ag lenders in the world, managing multi-state portfolios, and financing operations across dozens of...
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Senior Vice President of Knowledge & Information, Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology
attorney, consultant, former general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Merchants Payment Coalition
brigadier general, Illinois Army National Guard
Director of the Space Science Missions Bureau, Knox Community Health Center
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