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The Huntley Historical Society is raising money to open a museum showcasing the village's history. The Northwest Herald reports: The society’s president, Jim Blasky, said he and the society have been working to organize fundraisers and explore potential partnerships that would help the society move closer to the estimated $50,000 it would take to renovate the home enough to open it to the public .

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — The Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford has another trove of dinosaur bones to add to its collection. A team that had worked at an excavation site in Utah unloaded 2,000 pounds of femurs and tail vertebrae on Friday...

John Gregory -- Illinois Radio Network The only handicap-accessible home that Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed is becoming a museum. Kenneth and Phyllis Laurent commissioned Wright to design the home in Rockford in 1949 after spinal cord problems left Kenneth Laurent paralyzed from the waist down...