“State OKs Metro Centre” – R Morning Star 1/6/1978

Source: Rockford Morning Star 1/6/1978 and also Rockfordiana: Municipal Centers – 2, pages 3 and 4

“Need for Metro Center limited” – 4/1/1977

Source: Rockford Morning Star 4/1/1977 and also Rockfordiana:  Municipal Centers – 1, page 107 and 108

“Civic center study foresees coliseum” – April 1977

Study:  Rockford Register-Republic 4/22/1977 and also Rockfordiana: Municipal Centers – 1 page 105

“Chicago firm will conduct local civic center study” – 2 -16 -1977

Source: Rockford Register-Republic 2/16/1977

and also Rockfordiana: Municipal Centers – 1, page 102

“MetroCentre Bids Under $25,000”

Source: Rockford Register-Republic 2/4/1977,

also Rockfordiana: Minicipal Centers 1, p 101

“Civic Center Study Fund Stalled” – 1/21/1977

Source: Rockford Morning Star 1/21/1977 and also

Rockfordiana:  Municipal Centers – 1, p. 100

“City to Delay..” Dec 1976; and also “Civic Center Bond Urgency Stressed” – Jan. 1977

Source: “City to delay aid application”  –  Rockford Morning Star 12/8/1976

“Civic Center Bond Urgency Stressed”  –  Rockford Morning Star 1/21/1977

and also Rockfordiana:  Municipal Centers – 1, p. 98

“Civic Center Fights for Cash” – 12/24/1976

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Source: Rockford Register-Republic 12/24/1976  by Mike DeDoncker

and also Rockfordiana: Municipal Centers – 1, pp 96-97

 

 

“New civic center site is proposed” – 1976

Source:  Rockford Morning Star 11/12/1976 and also Rockfordiana: Municipal Centers – 1, pp 93-94               Continues below.