Rockford Area

In the Rockford area, here are some places to go sledding.

It appears that all the COVID-19 lockdowns happening around the globe have had a side benefit to consumers. Crude oil prices have dropped to their lowest numbers since June.

If you've lived in this area for any length of time, you're probably aware that we're in the midst of deer mating season, a time of year when car-versus-deer incidents really go up.

Rockford area gas prices are currently hovering around $2.19 per gallon, which is 5 cents lower than last week when gas prices only dropped about a penny.

The August 10th storm, which hit Iowa the hardest and also impacted us here in Illinois, along with Ohio, Minnesota, and Indiana, resulted in damages of around $7.5 billion.

It was just a few weeks back that we learned about a dangerous new challenge that TikTok users were being exposed to. That was the "Benadryl Challenge." Now, we've got another one.

I think that may be the first headline I've ever written that actually gave me the creeps. It's not often you can work the words stink, bugs, crawl, and your house into the same sentence unless you're the subject of a TLC series.

I think that most of us are aware of the slew of internet "challenges" that have worked their way through our popular culture over the last few years. Some are really good, while others have injured and even killed people.

You may have noticed some signage around the Rockford area asking you to pay with a credit/debit card because there's a shortage of coins. But is it really a shortage?

With Governor Pritzker's Phase-4 reopening plan in effect, bowling alleys are allowed to have no more than 50 people inside, a rule that has enraged many owners.