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Maybe it's not quite as simple as the headline would indicate, but the truth of the matter is indisputable. Illinois High School athletics first used the term way back in 1939.

Back in November, officials at Rock Valley College (RVC) got together at the cornerstone of the Educational Resource Center (ERC) to take a look behind it at a time capsule put there in 1970.

All in-person shows and classes have been suspended since March, and now, the legendary Chicago comedy school and theater Second City is on the block for only the second time since it was founded 61 years ago.

Did you know Rockford had/has an 'official song'?

With those who were born in 2000 starting their first year in college, Beloit College's annual Mindset List takes a look back at the last 18 years.

Sunday night marked the anniversary of the former "Public Enemy #1" being killed by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater.

A non-profit is lobbying to have the 2,400-mile-long network of existing roads named the 20th National Historic Trail in the United States.

With this week's announcement of the Clocktower Resort's impending demolition, it won't be long until a Rockford landmark is nothing but a memory.

"Tinker's Shadow: The Hidden History of Tinker Swiss Cottage" takes a look at the spooky side of a Rockford treasure.

I see people posting "Throwback Thursday" photos and video all over social media every week, so I went looking through the archives and happened upon a really cool, well-produced look at life in Rockford at the mid-point of the last century.