The City of Rockford received a $6.5 million federal grant to hire aids for the Head Start Program, which provides services for children ages birth to five years old and pregnant women from low-income families.
The City of Rockford is tearing down homes one at a time in an effort to fight blight. Since 2014, the City has invested about $500,000 in taking down blighted properties, demolishing vacant homes, to improve neighborhoods.
McDonald's announced Tuesday that it will be spending approximately $317 million to modernize its Illinois restaurants, adding updated dining room decor, digital self-order kiosks, remodeled counters, menu boards and parking spots.
Democratic State Representative Litesa Wallace tweeted some strong words of her own in response to President Donald Trump's Tuesday morning tweets in which he called former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman a "lowlife" and a "dog".
According to a Deloitte Survey, back to school shoppers will spend a record $27 billion dollars in the United States this year, which breaks down to just over $510 per family. School supplies alone account for about $115 dollars of that cost. Eyewitness News caught up with some of those shoppers as they took to local stores to stock up for the fast approaching school year.
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