Nestled in the heart of Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood, the Village Discount Outlet is a thrifter’s paradise masquerading as a no-frills discount store. From the outside, it looks like any other ...

“We lived in Freeport, IL. My mom would drive me to Monroe ... gone back to taking jazz piano lessons with a teacher I respected in Rockford, in a location in the Eastwind strip mall.” “After a lesson ...

Most Rockford residents have heard the story of how the I-90 Tollway, now called the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway, was to be ...

Starbucks has opened its first coffee shop in downtown Rockford. Plans are for it to be open seven days a week.

Rockford would provide incentives for an $11.7 million redevelopment of the former Chick Hotel downtown under a proposed agreement.

Urban Equity Properties has set its sights on its next big project in downtown Rockford: The former Chick Hotel, 119 S. Main St. Rockford would provide a forgivable loan of $2.7 million to ...

A mixture of senior living, affordable, and luxury units will be coming to several locations on South Main Street, Harrison Avenue, and Express Lane. The former Chick Hotel will also be ...

Downtown Rockford's first Starbucks has opened inside the newly renovated State & Main building, 211 W. State St. Justin Fern of Urban Equity Properties said he worked hard to bring a national ...

Bloomingdale’s will soon close its flagship department store in the ailing San Francisco Centre, the giant downtown mall that previously lost its other major anchor tenant and is facing a possib ...