Welcome to part 1 of our Explore of Sandburg Mall in Galesburg, Illinois. This mall which opened in the 70s retains much of its great original look and feel but will be closing soon. When we were there only 2 tenants were left in the whole mall interior and only a handfull of people came in the whole time we were there which gave the whole place a surreal feel. Enjoy and watch foor part 2 when we go inside the closed stores and back hallways! Like, share, comment, and PLEASE SUBSCRIBE for weekly Explores. Thank you for watching!! #RealUrbex is our promise to you: All of our Explores are 100% real with no fakery, lies, set up shots or rehearsed video, or any falsehoods or lying thumbnails made up to fool you for a view, what you see here is 100% real Urban Exploring! **If you would like to help us on our Explores please check see our PayPal link in the channel info, any amount is appreciated.** #dead mall #abandoned ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urbfC1--QOg

Opening in 1928 this sprawling school once had over 2600 students traversing it's corridors, climbing it's stairs, and going to it's once highly accredited classes and even had a large expansion done in the late 1950's to accommodate the growth of the student body. Unfortunately in the 1960's the economy hit a huge downturn and the student numbers began to shrink steadily until by the early 2000's it had shrunk to a mere 546 in the huge building and it's final graduating class only consisted of 72 students. Unfortunately in the 15 years since it closed the vandals have descended upon the school like angry vultures not content with picking the bones of what was left by stealing anything inside but by breaking, vandalizing, burning, and totally destroying this once amazing building. Even in it's ruined state the building remains beautiful and it was amazing to walk through the halls ans rooms seeing the architecture and feeling all the decades of history still able to be seen and felt in it's walls. Special thank you to @Urbexy for his help with this video and his editing skills in this first part and part 2 of this Explore, I really needed his expertise. Please comment here or on Urbexy's channel and let him and us know what you thought of his editing. I apologize about the puff puff sound and coughing throughout the video, I was not feeling good during this Explore and had my oxygen concentrator on high and both can be noisy. Thank you for Exploring with us, stay curious and Explore the world around you, you never know what you may find. #RealUrbex is our promise to you: All of our Explores are 100% real with no fakes, lies, set up shots or rehearsed video, or any falsehoods or lying thumbnails made up to fool you for a view, what you see here is 100% real Urban Exploring! **If you would like to help us on our Explores please check see our PayPal link in the channel info, any amount is appreciated and the gas tank of the Exploropala thanks you.** ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jsVwt3mWvY