As the 150-year-old property awaits development to become an apartment building, the City of Rockford sees potential for other new life in the Madison and Oak Street area. The tool to revive the quiet ...

Under its motto, “Founded by Chance, Sustained by Courage,” Brooklyn represented the possibilities for Black life in America.

Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Public Health announced the award of $118,000 to the Winnebago County Health Department (WCHD) to create a "health equity zone" to address outcomes ...

Turn of the century Chicago saloon owner Patrick H. Grimes was reportedly a notorious figure in the city's gambling scene, ...

Rantoul was a man of great accomplishment, having graduated from Harvard, performed as an accomplished lawyer interested in ...

Rockford’s Flinn Middle School is hosting the Regional Silver Gloves Tournament this weekend. Champions from five states are competing-fighters from Iowa, ...

The Chicago Blackhawks’ 4-2 victory over the Montreal Canadiens proved to be a big mental boost, but they also learned that ...

Few of us had heard of Carter, a former naval officer and later peanut farmer and Georgia governor. No matter ... he wanted to be president, and we were going to see him and hear him. The press ...

The suspect approached the victim multiple times on the Rock River Rec Bike Path, near the 2300 block of Illinois Street, ...

The weekend brings an Epiphany Party, the Fourth Annual Jaimie Cox Memorial Blood Drive and a Winter Market, along with ...

Some worry NCAA court decision will squeeze out Rockford college recruits. Others say it gives them more opportunity. What ...

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