Editing Galesburg, Illinois (section)

==Popular culture==
[[File:Galesburg-city-sign.jpg|thumb|"Welcome to Galesburg" sign]]
*Galesburg is the birthplace of [[George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.]], inventor of the [[Ferris wheel]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.browsebiography.com/bio-george_ferris.html |title=George Ferris biography, birth date, birth place and pictures |access-date=2013-11-20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212190512/http://www.browsebiography.com/bio-george_ferris.html |archive-date=2013-12-12 }}</ref>
*According to legend, the four [[Marx Brothers]] ([[Groucho]], [[Chico Marx|Chico]], [[Harpo Marx|Harpo]], and [[Gummo Marx|Gummo]]) first received their nicknames at Galesburg's Gaity Theatre in 1914. Nicknames ending in ''-o'' were popular in the early 20th century, and a fellow vaudevillian, [[Art Fisher]], supposedly bestowed them upon the brothers during a poker game there. [[Zeppo Marx]] received his nickname later.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.galesburg.com/columnists/x1311854565/Tom-Wilson-Knox-baseball-trounces-actors|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204184456/http://www.galesburg.com/columnists/x1311854565/Tom-Wilson-Knox-baseball-trounces-actors|url-status=dead|title=Knox Baseball Trounces Actors|archive-date=December 4, 2008}}</ref>
*[[Barack Obama]] mentioned Galesburg during his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and near the beginning of his [[2010 State of the Union Address]].<ref>[[s:Barack Obama's Second State of the Union Address|Wikisource]]</ref> Obama also visited Galesburg High School in 2011 to speak to students while in the area for a Midwestern bus tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/17/obama-bus-tour-stop-12-galesburg-il/|title=Obama Bus Tour Stop #12: Galesburg, IL|website=cnn.com|access-date=2 May 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202012341/http://whitehouse.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/17/obama-bus-tour-stop-12-galesburg-il/|archive-date=2 February 2017}}</ref>
*Baseball legend [[Jimmie Foxx]] lived out some of his last years as a greeter at a steakhouse in Galesburg. Foxx left just before his death in 1967.<ref>{{Cite book
| publisher = McFarland
| isbn = 9780786418671
| last = Daniel
| first = W. Harrison
| title = Jimmie Foxx
| date = January 2004
| page = 206
}}</ref>
*[[Ronald Reagan]] attended second grade at Silas Willard Elementary School between 1917 and 1918.<ref>[http://silaswillard.schools.officelive.com/default.aspx Silas Willard main page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110827071103/http://silaswillard.schools.officelive.com/default.aspx |date=2011-08-27 }}</ref> He portrayed pitcher [[Grover Cleveland Alexander]] in the movie ''[[The Winning Team]]'' in 1952, starting with Alexander's stint with the minor-league [[Galesburg Boosters]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Hoots|first=Joshua|title=The Winning Team|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045332/|work=Motion Picture|access-date=4 October 2012}}</ref>
*Galesburg is the birthplace of artist [[Stephen Prina]], whose recent publication ''Galesburg, Illinois+'' documents an exhibition that portrays the town indirectly through various media.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Stephen Prina: Galesburg, Illinois+ |date=2016 |publisher=Walther König |location=Köln |isbn=9783863359287 |series=Schriften des Museums Kurhaus Kleve |volume=70}}</ref>
* The first stage of the NES game ''[[Ninja Gaiden (NES video game)|Ninja Gaiden]]'' is in Galesburg, depicted as more like New York City.<ref>{{cite book |title= NINJA GAIDEN INSTRUCTIONS |url=https://www.nintendo.co.jp/clv/manuals/es/pdf/CLV-P-NACBE.pdf |publisher=[[Tecmo]] |date=March 1999 |page=11 }}</ref>