by the numbers

SecurityBaron.com recently released a study determining the 164 safest cities in Illinois, and it shows the Rockford area needs to keep improving.

A new study takes a look at the stress levels of all 50 states, and while Illinois certainly isn't stress free, nearly half the country is more on edge than we are.

It's that fun, post-winter time in Rockford when you begin to wonder when, not if, you'll knock your car out of alignment hitting a pothole.

Personal finance site WalletHub ranked 222 Illinois cities for a new study. Place your bets.

It's hard to put into words what we're witnessing happen to Houston, Texas. It's even harder to fathom that things are still getting worse down there, with experts opining that we haven't seen the worst of the storm yet. We've had extensive flooding here in the Rockford area (along with a big part o…

When I was in my young 20s, like most of my peers, I looked at New Year's Eve as the most important social night of the year. We always looked for the biggest, over-the-top parties we could find, because if you didn't have the best time of the entire year on New Year's Eve, your whole…

I was lucky enough to be invited by coordinator Ken Decoster to the Rockford Crime Stoppers luncheon Wednesday at the Radisson Hotel and Conference Center. I say lucky, because you feel pretty darn safe being surrounded by the area's finest law enforcement personnel, and because I learned …

If this is the first you've even thought about Tax Deadline Day, then feel free to panic and stress out. I'll wait.

Easter Sunday is this coming Sunday, in case you've been too busy with taxes and/or March Madness to notice.

I love and look forward to Saint Patrick's Day. Granted, my enthusiasm for the day is a bit less than when I was younger, when friends and I would attempt to seriously deplete Rockford's supply of green beer...to no avail (although we often helped deplete Rockford's supply of aspirin …