Not that long ago, Rockford was named the “Most Miserable Community” in the country.
It was also called the Underwater Mortgage Capital of the United States.
“We were seeing our property values drop, our property taxes rise, crumbling infrastructure, increasing violent crime, and we were just on the wrong trajectory,” Mayor Tom McNamara said during a State-of-the-City address on April 16 before the Greater Rockford Chamber of Commerce…