Show star Roseanne Barr told the Hollywood Reporter in February that the working class sitcom’s fictional setting of Lanford is based on Elgin. The producers even conducted a focus group in ...

From Harris running The Lunchbox to Darlene's future ambitions, The Conners season 7 forgot countless great storylines from ...

She wouldn't see the predominantly white, Republican city 40 miles northwest of downtown Chicago with a devastated economy that was the inspiration for Lanford, Ill., during the first "Roseanne ...

Warning: This article contains SPOILERS for The Conners season 7, episodes 5 and 6, "Exercise Bands, Money Plans, and Faraway Land" and "The Truck Stops Here." While The Conners series finale didn ...

When “Roseanne” premiered in 1988, I was among the millions of Americans who tuned in weekly to watch the Conners navigate life in the Midwest. Although I was a kid in Los Angeles, thousands ...

Barr was the Emmy-winning star and the Conner family glue on America's must-watch No. 1 show, "Roseanne," from October 1988 to May 1997. The star and executive producer briefly revived the series in ...

Although the fictional family lives in the made-up town of Lanford, Illinois in the long ... (The setting isn’t entirely random; “Roseanne” creator Matt Williams is an Evansville native.) “ ...

“Roseanne” star Michael Fishman is speaking ... “While I was told I would not be returning for Season 5, Lanford was a valuable place to grow up, learn and develop. I was incredibly lucky ...

Original Roseanne star Michael Fishman spoke out after ... "While I was told I would not be returning for Season 5, Lanford was a valuable place to grow up, learn, and develop.

Before Johnny Galecki was a passive, hoodie-wearing, sensitive physicist on The Big Bang Theory, he was a passive, hoodie-wearing, sensitive graphic artist on Roseanne. And long before he fell for ...

Like Vonda, Bonnie was one of Roseanne's most memorable co-workers ... Even without the late Crosby by her side, Bonnie's return to Lanford, presumably via motorcycle, could make for some great ...

has not undergone any major renovations since viewers first entered the blue-collar family’s home in the 1988 series premiere of Roseanne. Other famed properties that have gone on the market in ...