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Rockford works as a place-based view into the library, connecting 32 published records that show how this locality changes across type, status, and theme within Illinois.
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32 published articles
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Coronado and the Times survive, but they did not stand alone. Orpheum, Palace, State, Dreamland, and Rex once filled Rockford's central city with overlapping...
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Its demolition matters beyond one building. The Elks Club carried Prairie-style civic ambition, stained glass, a ballroom, and a long public argument over whether...
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Enough of the Capitol remains to keep South Main's entertainment strip visible, but the missing auditorium makes the loss impossible to soften. The article...
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The Midway widens Rockford's theater geography. It tied East State commercial growth, World War I military overflow, and one of the city's largest neighborhood...
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The Coronado is the grand survivor. The Times tells the more fragile story: a later downtown movie house built for everyday crowds, then left...
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If the lost Grand Opera House records an earlier chapter of Rockford's cultural ambition, the Coronado shows how that ambition returned in the movie-palace...
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The cottage is more than a picturesque survivor. Its setting, furnishings, and ties to Rockford business life make it one of the city's best...
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This building keeps the Waterpower District readable today. Rockford Brass Works survived long enough to become Water Power Lofts, turning a former industrial shell...
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Before Rockford became a broader industrial city, the riverfront and South Main blocks were doing the city-building work. The Waterpower District remains the clearest...
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Rockford's industrial story is often told through furniture and riverfront growth. Barber-Colman adds the precision-manufacturing side of the city: a company that began in...
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The former Fordam generating station keeps Rockford's waterpower story in motion even after plant operations ceased on October 1, 1971. Today's hydroelectric proposal ties...
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Illinois Cabinet operated on Rockford's southeast side from 1906 to 1973, then spent decades in vacancy before fire and reckless salvage turned the site...
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