I'm heading back to Minnesota for Thanksgiving tomorrow and I'm pretty excited because I haven't been back to my hometown in about a year. But visiting home, while it's always exciting, can be a little disorienting because nothing is ever the same. There's a lot of time spent driving down streets and back roads; wondering what happened to all the places that you I used to love. There's so much about my hometown that I miss and if I had it my way, I would bring a lot of things back.

As you drive around Rockford and the surrounding communities with loved ones who come home for the holidays, what do they always notice is missing or what place always seems to come up in conversation; when you reminisce about the good ol' days? "Remember when we used to go to _________ all the time?"

Could you fill in the blank with any of these places?

1. Cheddars

2. Ponderosa

3. Olga's Kitchen

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4. Chess King

5. Insurance Liquidators

6. Fazoli's

7. The drive-in

8. Elixir

9. The Wagon Wheel

10. Taylor Street Pizza

11. Bookworm Bakery

12. Maria's

13. The Grotto

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14. Colonial Village Mall

15. Club Vertigo

16. Top Hat

17. The Last Straw

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18. Partyland

19. Frankie's Pizza

20. Big Apple Bagels

21. Media Play

 

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