Illinois legislators passed a record-high $55.1 billion state budget, which includes funding for local K-12 schools, Rockford ...

The Prairie Band Potawatomi’s land in DeKalb County was erroneously declared “abandoned ... at the Illinois Capitol last year alongside state Rep. Maurice West, D-Rockford.

Lincoln Developmental Center opened in 1877 as the Illinois Asylum for Feeble ... McNamara said. Rockford residents regard the abandoned site as a symbol of promises unfulfilled, he said.

In a video titled “We Got Trapped Inside an Abandoned Prison by Police ... a waste of a potential site,” Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara said. The Illinois Department of Central Management ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Illinois may be famous for its deep ... According to legend, the monster used abandoned coal mines to sneak through the area. After Emert told a local radio station ...

Illinois’ 17th Congressional ... Meyer led the City of Rockford’s strategy to reduce blight, suing owners of abandoned properties to force them to demolish the structures, saving taxpayers ...

Rockford, Illinois has a lot of history to entertain people like me, but I swear something new and interesting always comes up when I least expect it. I stumbled across a YouTube video that stunned me ...

Timothy Carter, 28, of Cabery, Illinois, has been charged ... This article originally appeared on Rockford Register Star: Bomb threat: Abandoned backpack forces police to evacuate Rockford Walmart ...

A 22-year-old suspect was arrested in the incident that left four people dead. A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a stabbing rampage Wednesday afternoon in Rockford, Illinois ...

A 22-year-old man has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder in a frenzied stabbing and beating rampage that left four people dead in a matter of minutes in Rockford, Illinois ...

TIMELINE: Fatal stabbings in Rockford, Illinois: What we know so far Officials on Thursday confirmed Christian Ivan Soto, 22, was charged with four counts of first-degree murder, seven counts of ...

Four people were killed, including a teenager and a US Postal Service worker, in a drug-fueled stabbing rampage in Rockford, Illinois, on Wednesday afternoon. Christian Soto, 22, is in custody ...