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Galena
Illinois, United States · Population 3,308
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2026-07-31: trash/recycling day pinned as the highest-frequency resident need alongside the river and parking; the bicentennial's busy-calendar and appeal-deadlines added as cards.
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Is the River Rising?
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Where to Park Downtown
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Trash & Recycling Day
How Busy Is It?
How crowded downtown will be on any day in the next few months — the bicentennial's parades, races and festivals, and the calmest day to go instead.
What's On in 2026
Galena's bicentennial-year events — and the days downtown fills up.
Appeal Your Property Assessment
Think your assessed value is wrong? Enter the date on your notice and see the exact deadline to complain to the Board of Review, and what comes after.
Ask Galena
Local picks from the people who live here — where to eat off Main, what's open in winter, who to call for an old house. Reading's open to all; sign in to add yours.
Getting Around by Bus
The county's door-to-door bus — rides around Galena, across the county, and out to Dubuque for the doctor — what each costs and how to book.
Do I Need Approval to Change My Building?
Most of Galena is a National Historic District. Pick the job you have in mind — paint, windows, a fence, an addition — and see whether it needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before you start, and who signs it off.
Estimate your property tax
Work your Illinois bill through in plain steps — a third of your home's value, minus your exemptions, times the combined local rate.
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Changelog
- New toolShipped a how-busy-is-it planner for the bicentennial year
- New toolShipped a property assessment appeal deadline calculator
- New toolShipped a trash and recycling day lookup
- New toolAdded a property-tax estimator
- Town updateAdded a sketch of the riverfront and Driftless hills
- New toolAdded a guide to the county dial-a-ride bus
- RetiredThe downtown parking Q&A moved into the new map
- New toolAsk Galena: local picks from the people who live here
- New toolWhere to Park Downtown: a clearer answer to Galena's worst headache
- New townGalena, Illinois is live
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