Rockford IL

Welcome to Poetically Yours. Poetically Your showcases poems by northern Illinois poets. This week's poet is Rockford's Welsh Elementary School student Jaida Cruz. Paula Coulahan, a Poetically Yours contributor, leads a group of fourth and fifth grade students who write for their school newspaper the "Bulldog Beat." He

One of the tornadoes confirmed after the April 17 severe weather outbreak was an EF1 that moved through Roscoe and directly through our backyard. The tornado left little of the approximately 355 feet of fencing around our Roscoe home. Much of the fence had been pulled from the fence line...

ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS — SupplyCore Inc., a Rockford, Illinois, defense logistics distributor, received a Pentagon contract worth as much as $90 million to supply facilities maintenance and repair goods to bases across the Southeast, as announced on war.gov. The firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity awa

LOVES PARK — Show skiers from around the Midwest and other parts of the country will compete on the Rock River this weekend in the Division 2 National Show Ski Championships. The annual competition takes place over two days on Saturday and Sunday at Shorewood Park, 235 Evelyn Ave.,...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A service designed to make travel easier for those flying out of Rockford will end less than a year after it launched. Friday, the Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD) said it was informed that American Airlines will end its Landline motorcoach service between RFD and the Chicago O’Hare

Rockford’s WREX-TV, a long-standing television station, has been a prominent fixture in northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin since the 1950s. On September 18, 1953, the station took to the airwaves, initially with a test pattern, and began commercial operations on October 1, 1953. Greater Rockford Television, Inc.,

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Rockford City Market is canceled Friday, July 31, due to poor weather conditions throughout the night. “The safety of our vendors, staff, musicians, and patrons is our top priority. Thank you for your understanding, and we’ll see you next Friday for another great night at the market,” the city m

Adan De Loera Marquez, 21, was sentenced to three months in jail and continued probation after pleading guilty to aggravated battery for attacking a co-worker with a wooden stick following an all-night drug and alcohol binge.

Illinois politicians have been promising to restore passenger train service to Rockford for nearly a quarter century. In 2002, then-candidate Rod Blagojevich pledged to bring passenger rail back to Rockford when elected Governor. I don’t need to tell you that the pledge was not fulfilled. In 2010, Governor Pat Quinn vi

FREEPORT, Ill. (WIFR) - A Stephenson County jury finds a Rockford man guilty of a handful of crimes. Saul Lara, 30, of Rockford, is found guilty of armed robbery, unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon and three counts of first-degree murder. On August 17, 2024, Jace Glasgow, 23,...