Rockford IL

Violent crime in Rockford decreased for the fourth consecutive year in 2025, with the Rockford Police Department reporting a 16.5% decrease in violent offenses, as well as a decrease in homicides, shootings, aggravated assaults, and robberies, while property crime remained flat and auto thefts rose.

Two Rockford residents were arrested after oxycodone pills and two loaded handguns were found in a vehicle.

ROCKFORD, IL — Rockford in 2025 recorded the fewest annual killings in the city in more than two decades. Rockford Police Department detectives investigated 12 homicides in 2025, down from 18 in 2024 and 20 in 2023, according to city records. The 12 homicides from last year represents a 33% decrease from 2024 and a...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Domestic violence-related crimes in Rockford reached their highest percentage in years this January, increasing 66% compared to the same month last year. The Mayor’s Office of Domestic and Community Violence Prevention presented the data during a committee meeting Tuesday to address the spike...

Rockford is hosting an event to help local contractors and business owners connect with project opportunities, according to a community announcement. The Public Procurement Event is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at the Rockford Public Library, 215 N. Wyman St., according to the announcement....

MASCHESNEY PARK, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) — When she was at Harlem High School, Misty Beaver was one of the best high school softball pitchers in Illinois. She led the Harlem Huskies to an IHSA State runner-up finish. Her latest achievement was being inducted into the Seton Hall University Hall of...

You walk in for “five minutes” and suddenly it is somehow lunch time. East State Street Antique Mall in Rockford is the kind of giant place that turns casual browsing into a full-on scavenger hunt, because every aisle has something weird, charming, and suspiciously affordable waiting to jump into your hands.

Henry County, Ill. (KWQC) -One of the QCA’s most prominent cases might not happen in the 309-area code. Jamison Fisher, the man accused of killing Trudy Appleby in 1996 has asked for a change of venue to either Rockford, Bloomington or Urbana. A date has not been scheduled for a judge to decide where an eventual...

A 25-year-old Rockford man was arrested in Cherry Valley after allegedly robbing a victim at gunpoint on Garrison Avenue, with police recovering a loaded handgun and Adderall pills.

ROCKFORD, IL — Court records show prosecutors have upgraded charges of driving under the influence against Rockford Ald. Mark Bonne , D-14, from a misdemeanor to a felony. Bonne, 63, was charged with DUI and improper lane usage in connection with a traffic stop that took place at 11:44 p.m. Jan. 26. Felony DUI...