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Heartland’s Stroll On State Event Brings Record Crowd To Downtown Rockford

ROCKFORD, IL – Downtown Rockford held its debut Heartland Stroll On State event on Saturday evening. A record crowd of at least 90,000 people attended, but according to Our City Our Story, only 30,000 people attended based on their “unconfirmed conservative

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ROCKFORD ETSY Has Four New Websites To Visit & BUY LOCAL!

Rockford, IL – A few months ago, the Mayor of Rockford and the CEO of ETSY proclaimed some vague stuff publicly, online, in the news, to the city about doing vague stuff with your skills and craft making ideas with ETSY, and

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Rockford Named Jizz City, USA

Rockford, IL –  America’s contributions to world culture includes jazz, baseball (debatable), soda pop, Levis, the Simpsons, Baywatch, commercialized evangelism, hip-hop, country-pop music (the bad kind, circa 1985 to present) , hillbilly pride, ebonics, cheap beer, skunk weed, porn and

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Transformers: Rise of the Rockfordians

Rockford, IL –  The fourth movie in the popular Transformers series focuses on our beloved city– or what’s left of it in the year two thousand and thirteen.  Director Michael Bay’s opening ten minute scene captures forty years in the

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Poork Town: Rochelle Man Cut Off From “All You Can Eat Fish”, Files Lawsuit

Poork Town is a special series from RKFDnews.com that focuses on what makes our community’s egos, stomachs, necks, legs, arms, butts and heads so large, poor, and proud. [hr] Rochelle, IL – Richard Beneger, a Rochellian native aged 51 and 550

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Rockford Register Star’s Mommy & Daddy Company Files For Bankruptcy

Rockford, IL –  We here at RKFDnews.com have been waiting a few weeks for this noose to break.  We want to send hugs and good wishes (positive, keep smiling, Rockford styled, bending over wishes) to our compadres at the Rockford

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