Public Utility – RPL's Local History

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

August 26, 2021Jean

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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

June 15, 2020Jean

Source: The American City, 1924?, in Local History

Rockford Electric Company, new building, 116-118 S. Wyman St., 1913

September 4, 2019Jean

Source: Rockford Republic, Aug. 11, 1913

2018 Services Provided by Your Garbage Fees

May 15, 2019July 17, 2019Jean

Source: City of Rockford, Water Customer Service, 2019

Home Rule Vote on March 20; “Who We Are and Who We Want to Be” – Winter 2018

March 7, 2018March 7, 2018Jan

Source: Northwest Quarterly Magazine, Winter 2018, Volume 15, No. 1, p. 208, by Tom McNamara

Works Progress Administration [WPA] Writers Program, Rockford

January 7, 2016Jan

Copyright 1941 by the City of Rockford, Illinois

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Sample of style of History of Rockford

Main St., North, 710

June 8, 2015Lisa

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

December 2, 2014Jan

Illinois Bell Telephone Co.

216 No. Main St.

Source: 1960 Polk’s Rockford City Directory