Source: Swanson, Don. Rockford (Images of America). Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia, c2012. Page 16.
General
Rockford Mitten Company, founded in 1879
Source: Swanson, Don. Rockford (Images of America). Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia, c2012. Page 19.
Trailer Park Opens April 27 — 200 ‘Rolling Bungalows’ Are Ready to Relieve Wartime Housing Crisis
Source: Rockford Register Republic April 15, 1942 pg. 13
Warren Otis Eddy – Prominent Farmer on North Main Street
Source: Register-Republic, Monday, December 11, 1933, page 8.
Capri Restaurant and Pizza Fire
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – Capri Restaurant and Pizza at 313 E. State Street has an estimated $300,000 worth of damage following a fire Thursday evening.
The call came to the Rockford Fire Department at 4:20 p.m. for a multiple-alarm structure fire at the restaurant. According to fire officials, Capri employees were preparing to open the restaurant and were cooking food when a fire broke out above one of the pizza ovens. The workers couldn’t extinguish the fire and it started to advance further into the restaurant.
RFD says everyone inside exited the restaurant safely as fire crews arrived on the scene. The first crews found heavy smoke from three sides and the roof, so they made an interior attack to the flames.
A ventilation vehicle and more engines were needed to completely extinguish and ventilate the restaurant. The fire was accidental and took more than four hours to completely extinguish; thankfully, no one was injured.
Rockford Inventor: Clifford N. Johnson in Various Newspaper Articles
Rockford Inventor: Clifford N. Johnson’s Patents
Rockford Inventor: Clifford N. Johnson with Johnson Pen Company
Source: Haugen, Doug. “The Johnson Pen Company.” The Pennant, Fall 2021, p. 28-35.
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Schleicher Printing, 426-428 E. State Street, fire, January 25, 1987; building later demolished
Source: Rockford Labor News, January 30, 1987
Corlett Road name changed to Blackhawk Road, circa 1960
Source: Rockford Morning Star, Dec. 11, 1960