East State Street
The Ground Round Menu
Source: Ebay
Photo (sketch, actually)
1855, East State Street
Source: Rockford Memories
East State St., looking west from Kishwaukee – 1891
Source: “Industrial and Picturesque Rockford,” by Eugene Browne and F. Ford Rowe, 1891
Illinois Tollway
Illinois Tollway
Photograph of Governor Stratten at September 22, 1956 groundbreaking for Tollway
(Also in book, photograph before NW Tollway at East State and Mulford, 1969)
Source: “Rockford: Big Town, Little City”, 977.331 CUN
Camp Grant – Barrack to Highland School
“Highland School Pupils to Use Camp Grant Barrack”
“….will provide the school with a large gymnasium, lavatories and a Pullman type kitchen.”
“The school is located on East State Street, between Rome and North Rockford avenues.”
“It will be connected by passageway with the present school building, so that access from end to the building will be possible without children or teachers having to go outdoors,”
Source: Rockford Morning Star December 7, 1947 p 55