Rockford IL

BELVIDERE, Ill. (WIFR) - All of Belvidere School District 100’s schools will get much-needed updates in the upcoming years. It’s all part of the district’s facility master plan. The plan is split into two phases. Consulting firm Nexus presented a detailed breakdown of all phase 1 projects...

BELOIT, Wis. (WIFR) - The Rock County Medical Examiner releases the names of the two people who were killed early Sunday, February 1. Barney Hurd, 68, of Beloit, and Carlos Hodges, 43, of Turtle, crashed around 2 a.m., Monday, at Prairie Avenue and Cranston Road. According to the Rock County...

Listen to the full interview on the Rapid City Business Journal Podcast RAPID CITY, SD — After building a loyal following in northern Illinois, Hairy Cow Brewing is preparing to […]

The former TGI Fridays/Sweet Basil Cafe location by the CherryVale Mall will have a new resident soon, but many people in the community are not pleased about it. Every time a business closes in Rockford and leaves behind a vacant building, the same question always comes up: "What business would residents like to see...

ROCKFORD — Decades before Robert Greenblatt ran NBC Entertainment, he stepped into a movie theater in Rockford to watch a musical documentary that gave him a new vision for what he wanted to do with his life. It was 1974’s “That’s Entertainment,” which celebrated MGM studio’s 50th anniversary, and...

A woman was rescued from the banks of the Rock River in Loves Park Thursday night after slipping down a hill.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) on Thursday reported the fewest job openings on the market since 2020.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - Christina Street on Rockford’s south side features one less resident. On January 31, a woman left the Forest City for Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. But the cross country move leaves nerves raw; she asked we conceal her identity. “Now that I’m here, I don’t feel safe anymore,”...

Illinois readers ranked the best lasagna in Rockford, naming Lino’s and other local Italian restaurants fans swear by.

BELVIDERE, Ill. (WIFR) - Fire crews worked to extinguish a semi-truck engulfed in flames on Thursday morning. Around 7 a.m., Feb. 5, Belvidere Fire Department went out to a call of a semi-tractor fire in the 6000 block of Indy Drive. Firefighters arrived within six minutes of the call and...