Rock River Current
ROCKFORD — Mayor Tom McNamara and Alderman Tamir Bell on Tuesday highlighted how the city’s new record-breaking $385 million capital plan also makes historic investments in downtown and the west side.
They held a news conference at City Yards, the home base for the Public Works Department, to draw attention to more than $65 million in road and infrastructure work coming to the 13th Ward, which Bell represents. The ward includes parts of the west side of downtown, as well as a swath of west Rockford generally between School and Cunningham streets…