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...Thorn lives part-time in two places - his daughter's house in Galesburg, Illinois, where he and his wife relocated on June 7, and "out of a suitcase" in Iowa City. "I'm going to be able to write a hell of a book about cheap motels in the Iowa City-Coralville area," jokes Thorn, who works at the University of Iowa. Repair costs at the flood-damaged campus itself are estimated at $232 million...
...Thorn, who has been living with his daughter in Galesburg, Illinois, anticipates that he won't be able to visit his house for a month. Until then, he's commuting several days a week to his University of Iowa job as director of athletic grounds (which, needless to say, are in bad shape...
Harvard won’t be his only stop. Clinton will also speak at the commencement ceremonies of five other institutions: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Middlebury College, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of New Hampshire, and Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., according to news releases on the universities’ Web sites...
Wilson is a co-director of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College in Galesburg...
...weeks ago, I spoke at the commencement at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. I stood in view of the spot where Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held one of their famous debates during their race for the U.S. Senate. The only way for Lincoln to get onto the podium was to squeeze his lanky frame through a window, whereupon he reportedly remarked, "At last I have finally gone through college." Waiting for the soon-to-be graduates to assemble, I thought that even as Lincoln lost that Senate race, his arguments that day would result, centuries later, in my occupying...