While a Rockford University costume designer and professor of theater arts retired in 2023 after 41 years, his designs are being strut for a good cause.
To honor two union members who died this year, including the mail carrier killed during the March 27 Rockford stabbings, community members came together Sunday for Workers Memorial Day.
The company announced it had filed for bankruptcy in the middle of March with the expectation that it would re-emerge from the court-supervised process by the end of the following month.
Every year in the U.S., more than 9,000 children go to the emergency room for lawn mower related injuries, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
There are many areas in Rockford with fresh and affordable food available nearby for residents, but other parts of the city are at risk of becoming food deserts.
Janesville police expect more charges will be filed against a 28-year-old man accused of fleeing from officers Thursday and crashing into another driver.