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Wine barrel-shaped suites add intimate micro resort to Hidden Creek Estates in Roscoe area
50+ min ago (582+ words) ROSCOE " Hidden Creek Estates has added an intimate new micro resort to its 77-acre property with five wine barrel-shaped suites designed to blend rustic charm with luxury feel. "Everything about this is so that you come, relax and just feel…...
Aldeen Golf Club unveils $2 M bunker renovation funded by private donors
2+ hour, 31+ min ago (493+ words) ROCKFORD " The sand trap has been Lana Engen's nemesis for roughly four decades of playing golf. She decided the problem must be the sand. Now she'll get to test that theory. Aldeen Golf Club, the Rockford Park District's premier course…...
He's the Guy behind Mc Donald's in the Rockford region
22+ hour, 14+ min ago (1289+ words) ROCKFORD " Decades before he owned his first Mc Donald's restaurant, Guy Bucciferro's days would start with a pre-dawn commute to help his father open one of the family's first franchises. It was 1996, and Bucciferro's father had purchased a Mc Donald's…...
Surf breaks turf on fiber internet expansion in Poplar Grove
22+ hour, 58+ min ago (296+ words) POPLAR GROVE " Surf Internet broke ground Wednesday on a fiber infrastructure project designed to expand high-speed internet access and support continued residential and business growth in the region. The company gathered on Hill Street near village offices with Growth Dimensions…...
Plan for University Hill development in Rockford clears first step
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (423+ words) ROCKFORD " A plan to bring more than 300 apartments to one of the last undeveloped plots along East State Street has passed its first step. The city's Zoning Board of Appeals voted 6-0 on Tuesday in favor of a special-use permit for…...
Taste the Town | New barbecue options at Baseball Tap in Cherry Valley
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (189+ words) CHERRY VALLEY " Baseball Tap Bar & Grill, 202 Walnut St. in downtown, has added a new backyard barbecue-style option to its restaurant. Owner Ryan Spears has teamed up with fellow pitmaster Will Hendrickson, the owner of Whiskey Hotel Barbecue, for a weekly…...
University Hill would bring 300-plus apartments to East State Street in Rockford
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (660+ words) ROCKFORD " One of the last undeveloped plots along East State Street could become more than 300 apartments and commercial space for retail and restaurants. University Hill is planned for land just east of the Puri School of Business near the Rockford…...
City Council gives OK to incentives for speculative industrial building in south Rockford
2+ day, 22+ hour ago (372+ words) ROCKFORD " City Council has approved an incentive package that will help a Dallas-based developer build a speculative industrial building'roughly a mile from the Chicago-Rockford International Airport. Hillwood, a real estate developer in the Perot family of companies, plans to build…...
Oscar Mike founder's first film set for hometown premiere in Rockford
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (864+ words) ROCKFORD " A new documentary moving through the film festival circuit tells the story of the country's only all-veteran wheelchair rugby team. But you'd be mistaken to think of it as a sports film. "It is not a sports documentary. It…...
Nearly century-old Lafayette Hotel in Rockford renovated for affordable housing
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (934+ words) ROCKFORD " A historic hotel built in the 1920s to house traveling vaudevillian actors has been renovated to provide affordable living to residents in need of housing. "One of the things that's really cool about this place, The Lafayette, is that it…...