Rockford IL

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - A unique collaboration between Rockford Public Schools and Tricoci University of Beauty Culture gave a group of young women and girls the chance to feel confident, inspired and supported all while celebrating their natural beauty. Saturday October 18 “Day of Beauty and Empowerment” brought...

About a half dozen fire units are on scene of a possible house fire near downtown Rockford. Firefighters were called shortly before 3 p.m. Saturday to the 800 block of Haskell Avenue.

According to the Beloit Police Department, a call came in just after 8:15 p.m. for the 1300 block of Nelson Avenue.

A South Beloit man has been accused of nearly beating a woman to death earlier this week.

Police have arrested 22-year-old Josiah Franklin, of Elgin, the suspect in a Friday afternoon shooting.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - More than a thousand people packed downtown Rockford on Saturday for the “No Kings” protest. Marching through the streets for what they call a push for accountability and our freedoms. Organizers said the rally, which started and finished at City Market Pavillion, brought out...

Mostly cloudy today with southwest winds 10 - 20 MPH gusting to 25 MPH. Highs right around 80 degrees. Rain and some rumbles of thunder tonight after midnight.

Delta Dental of Illinois Foundation brings its Land of Smiles Program to a pair of Stateline schools.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) - We’re ending the week on a warm note as daytime highs were close to 20 degrees above average for this time of year. Clouds will fill in late tonight, as a wave of showers and storms will move across the stateline through early tomorrow morning. Temperatures will also be quite mild in the low...

Rockford, Illinois, and I have ghosted each other for decades, but we refuse to quit each other completely. I grew up there but left after high school, returning occasionally to visit my family, who continued to reside among the strip malls, manufacturing plants, and my former teenage angst. Throughout, my mother...