Source: Swanson, Don. Rockford (Images of America). Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia, c2012. Page 19.
Business
Capri Restaurant and Pizza Fire
Photo posted by the Rockford Fire Department’s social media.
Published: Oct. 27, 2022 at 4:51 PM CDT | Updated: Oct. 28, 2022 at 2:59 AM CDT
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’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.
Please use our search tags to find more information about Clifford N. Johnson.
Article is posted with the author, Doug Haugen’s, permission on October 28, 2022 via email.
Schleicher Printing, 426-428 E. State Street, fire, January 25, 1987; building later demolished
Source: Rockford Labor News, January 30, 1987
Battle Ax plug tobacco advertisement on south side of D. J. Stewart building, 100 block of South Main Street
Photographed by Jean Lythgoe, November 16, 2021
CD Source, record store, formerly Park Theater, 5723 N. Second Street, Loves Park, IL, destroyed in fire, along with mural from 2021 by Brett Whitacre, Sept. 20, 2022
Sources: CD Source, courtesy Laura Kenyon, December 2021 and mystateline.com, September 20, 2022
“Hosiery Firm Plans to Build – Leave Old Plant” (article from 1950)
Source: ROCKFORD MORNING STAR, June 22, 1950, pg 8.
“In New Warehouse” – Lorden Storage Company, Inc. (article from 1951)
Source: Published in Morning Star, April 1, 1951, pg. 48.
Manikin Hosiery Company Building (currently the Lorden Building in Davis Park)
Source: Sanborn Map Company, 1913, Vol. 1; Republished, 1951.
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Sanborn Maps Collection website (accessed 9/8/2022).
See “Image 22” online: https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn02127_008/
Source: 2022 Google Maps view of the building known as the Lorden Building, located in Davis Park/Founders Landing, maintained by the Rockford Park District.