Rockford IL

Rockford Police arrested a teen after he allegedly attacked a man who told him not to throw fireworks in a river.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Ahead of the Fourth of July holiday weekend, the Rock River Valley Blood Center calls on the community to donate blood to meet an expected rise in demand. All donors who give blood at an RRVBC donor center or mobile blood drive between June 29 and...

Byron has the kind of summer stop people start talking about before the cone is even finished. One small Illinois town, one cheerful ice cream counter, and suddenly a simple drive feels like the best idea you had all week. The draw starts with soft serve, but the menu does...

The weekend brings the Village of Pearl City Garage Sales, the Pretzel City 5K and Life-sized Candyland, along with food, live music and more to the Freeport area. Village of Pearl City Garage Sales What: More than 20 garage sales will include clothes of all sizes, furniture, toys, kitchen items, appliances, baby gear,

MACHESNEY PARK — A Machesney Park couple is bringing a new business centered on energy drinks and sweet soda creations to the village’s main retail corridor on West Lane Road. Fizzy’s Soda Shop offers roughly two dozen different dirty soda combinations and more than a dozen energy drink...

BELVIDERE — A nearly 258-acre swath of land adjacent to the Belvidere Assembly Plant could become an industrial park for companies that supply parts to the automaker once the plant restarts. That’s the direction Mayor Clint Morris wants for the land between Town Hall and Irene roads, which was...

WHITEWATER, Wis. — Beloit Turner graduate Brian Butzler is a member of the 61st class to be inducted into the UW-Whitewater Athletic Hall of Fame. Butzler, who recently was inducted into the Beloit Historical Society Elliott-Perring Sports Hall of Fame, experienced a collegiate journey marked by both athletic excellenc

It’s been an impressively comfortable second half of June across northern Illinois, with temperatures running below typical early-summer levels. We’ve seen a steady run of cool afternoons and low humidity, making it feel more like late spring at times than early summer. In fact, yesterday marked the 12th day this month

Showers likely today during the morning. Scattered showers this afternoon with a few thunderstorms. Some of the storms could become strong and possibly severe with wind and hail the main concerns. Highs in the upper 70’s with southwest winds 10 - 20 MPH. Shower/t-storms threat ends by 8 tonight with lows in the middle

ROCKFORD — A real estate developer in the Perot family of companies broke ground on Wednesday on the first building to fill a new logistics park south of the U.S. Route 20 and South Main Street interchange. Hillwood is constructing a roughly 335,000-square-foot building on spec, meaning the structure...