Source: Rockford Register Star, Oct. 10, 2019.
Y.M.C.A.
Y.M.C.A., East State St. – pre-1936
Source: photographer not dated, no photographer mentioned
This was, at one time, Rockford’s Y.M.C.A. with a trolley/streetcar moving along East State St. and Madison St. The three buildings at photo left of the YMCA building were razed.
Photo between 1890 and 1936 bassed on the electric trolley
Harlem Boulevard
Harlem Boulevard (Harlem Avenue)
Source: Rockford Morning Star, 10/09/1891
Camp Grant
“Morale Work in the Camp”
Chaplain Ackley, asst morale officer and chief chaplain at Camp Grant delivered address before
Kiwanis on Tues Feb 4.. During wartime the main stress is to inspire a will to win; inspired with
confidence, upheld with devotion to country and for the cause for which they fought.
During Peacetime, the emphasis is on how to keep them happy; Y.M.C.A. programs,
education, Also Knights of Columbus, Jewish Welfare, the Liberty theater, library….
Source: Rockford Morning Star 1919