![]() ![]() ![]() Like many cities, it was started as a waypoint, halfway between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi, both of which in the 19 th century were major highways to the world, the former to New York via the Erie Canal and the later to the New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico. Rockford’s first white settler was Germanicus Kent, an East Coast transplant, as an informational plaque on the riverside park neatly informs. And in Rockford’s case, you don’t even need to look nor to shake that hard. Joliet provided me a great time at an amateur baseball game, Springfield delivered me an unbelievable sandwich-cum-casserole called a horsehoe, and Rockford has also now given me a fun time.įun can be found anywhere, easily. Chicago is the big city, America’s Second City, hub of the Midwest. For a friendly Midwest city, most of my friends would turn their noses at Joliet, Springfield or Rockford. ![]() as any city can be.” That in conjunction, with Rockford, Illinois’ firm status as Rust Belt city would make folks look elsewhere. Shake something hard enough and change will fall out, I promise.Īpparently, (according to heavy research on Wikipedia), Life magazine in 1949, described Rockford as “nearly typical of the U.S. You can find a thought-provoking idea in anything. Every place in the world can be interesting. ![]()
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