Galesburg has an opportunity to prosper, but it’s going to need to keep more of its talent local. Or draw it from elsewhere.The Register-Mail’s eight-day series, Flourishing Elsewhere, put numbers behind the concept that rural communities lose their brightest graduates to metro areas. The newspaper’s survey of the top 5 percent of graduates of Galesburg High School (from 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010) showed that 86 percent left Galesburg with no plans to return. [...]
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