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Food insecurity continues to be a problem in Rockford, something the Northern Illinois Food Bank hopes to address with a new Neighborhood Market on Sandy Hollow Road.
Since moving to Chicago 25 years ago, the Rockford-born bassist, 43, has put out 15 albums of originals, a body of work that defies generalization. He’s composed for jazz bands, classical ...
(By contrast, in 1970, the year the event first moved to Oshkosh from Rockford, Illinois, attendance was ... aerobatic/pyrotechnic shows to polka bands to astronauts who answer audience questions ...
One of Mrs. Picot’s students, Aubrey Hartwick, won a recognition award for her mask sculpture now showing at the Young Artist Show at the Rockford Art Museum ... music filled the air as the RMS bands ...
In August of 1969, 32 bands and solo acts came together for what is considered ... The league featured teams in smaller midwestern communities like Rockford, Illinois and Racine, Wisconsin. At its ...
The weekend brings Lockwood Park’s Opening Day, a 50th Anniversary Vietnam program, Cars and Coffee and the EAA Chapter 22 ...
Monarch Energy is considering a $1 billion investment in a Rockford, Illinois industrial park. The project hinges on securing sufficient electricity, which could take ComEd three years to provide.
Soldiers of the Illinois Army National Guard returned to the bases at Peoria and Rockford in Illinois after a 10-month deployment to the Middle East in support of Operation Spartan Shield.
Cheap Trick vocalist Robin Zander offered a hint at what to expect from the band's next studio album – and revealed its ...
Several casinos operate near the Illinois-Wisconsin border, including the Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee and the Hard Rock Casino in Rockford. Proposed casinos include a Ho-Chunk casino in Beloit ...