Source: Rockford Republic, May 29, 1928 and Rockford Register-Republic, January 5, 1962
Public Utility
Steam plumes from the two towers at the Byron Nuclear Power Plant, photo taken from the Jefferson Street Bridge, 17 miles upstream as the crow flies
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One can just make out the two plumes of steam from the two towers. Note the State Street, Chestnut Street and railroad bridges in the photo, as well as the News Tower and the Founders Landing Building at Davis Park.
Source: Photographed from the Jefferson Street Bridge, August 26, 2021, by Jean Lythgoe
Rockford Cuts Catch-Basin Cleaning Costs by Using The AUTO-EDUCTOR
Source: The American City, 1924?, in Local History
Rockford Electric Company, new building, 116-118 S. Wyman St., 1913
Source: Rockford Republic, Aug. 11, 1913
2018 Services Provided by Your Garbage Fees
Source: City of Rockford, Water Customer Service, Â 2019
Home Rule Vote on March 20; “Who We Are and Who We Want to Be” – Winter 2018
Source: Northwest Quarterly Magazine, Winter 2018, Volume 15, No. 1, p. 208, by Tom McNamara
Works Progress Administration [WPA] Writers Program, Rockford
Copyright 1941 by the City of Rockford, Illinois
R917.733 W93
Sample of style of History of Rockford
Main St., North, 710
Henry, Charles, teamster, res. 710 N Main, W.R.
Source: 1876 Rockford City Directory
Beal, M.A., secretary and treas Forest City Electric Light and Power Co., res 710 N Main
Source: 1889-1890 Rockford City Directory
Main St., No., 216 – Ill. Bell
Illinois Bell Telephone Co.
216 No. Main St.
Source: 1960 Polk’s Rockford City Directory
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