ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The Winnebago County Coroner’s Office has identified a man who drowned in the Rock River in downtown Rockford on Monday.
According to the Rockford Fire Department, crews were called to the area behind the Rockford Public Library, near the E. State Street Bridge, around 10:16 a.m.
They arrived to find a man attempting to rescue a person who had submerged in the water near the shoreline…