Source: Rockford Morning Star 1/6/1978 and also Rockfordiana: Municipal Centers – 2, pages 3 and 4
Charles Boettcher
“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.
“City’s center cost: $5 million” – 8/18/1976
Source: Rockford Morning Star 8/18/1976 And also Rockfordiana: Municipal centers – 1, page 90