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Children’s songwriter Jim Valley is spending the week at Marsh Elementary School in Rockford.

ROCKFORD — Fences still surround the empty building at the corner of North Main and Mulberry streets that once housed a law office and Trekk Inc. The City Council bought the two-story downtown building with a crumbling facade for a dollar this year.

ROCKFORD — More than 30 Head Start teachers and parents defended the program Monday in front of the City Council.

ROCKFORD — The Rockford Police Department is posting a help-wanted sign even before its latest round of recruits take an oath of office that could bring it to full strength.

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ROCKFORD —  Police have charged Tronte D. Pickett, 19 of Rockford, with attempted first degree murder in the death of Jordan M. Bounsinh, 22.

ROCKFORD — Two men suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds late this afternoon in and just outside the Fairgrounds Valley housing complex.

SPRINGFIELD — The drama in the 2014 campaign for Illinois’ statewide offices shifted substantially after the withdrawal of former White House chief of staff Bill Daley from the Democratic primary for governor.

ROCKFORD — Detectives from Winnebago, Boone and Ogle counties are being credited with a pair of arrests that is believed to solve “numerous thefts” that have taken place over several months targeting area quarries and farms.

Wall-to-wall sunshine with highs topping out around 72 will make for pleasant first full day of autumn today.

ROCKFORD — The stories you hear in Angie Upton’s shop prove that women can have a spiritual but all-too-often-painful relationship with their hair.

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