attendance

If you found yourself with a little bit of cabin fever around the holidays and decided to head out and look at the light show known as the Festival of Lights going on at Sinnissippi Park, you probably noticed that you were not alone.

The state says the 2019 Illinois State Fair had record estimated revenue of more than $6.5 million.

The guy working at the "Guess Your Weight and Age" booth at the Illinois State Fair would like to see more contestants, and so would Illinois State Fair organizers.

It seems that the combination of food, drink, music, friends, and a cool & eclectic vibe is really working for the Rockford City Market, the weekly Friday get-together in Downtown Rockford that just finished its May through September run.

Being big supporters of the Rockford Area Convention and Visitors Bureau (RACVB) as we are around here, we often salute the efforts of the RACVB to market Rockford as a travel destination to people outside our area. According to some new numbers released this week, we have good reason to applaud.

By now you may have heard that Rockford's Stroll on State, held on November 26th in downtown Rockford, set a new attendance record of 75,000 people. That's almost 10,000 more people enjoying the night than did last year.

Just getting back to work after an extended holiday vacation, I've been trying to catch up on some of the things we may have missed at the end of the year. One of those things is the attendance figures from the third annual Stroll on State, which my family (and thousands of other families) thoroughly enjoyed...