A week after a long-anticipated vote on the redevelopment of the former Barber-Colman campus went off the rails with aldermen accusing one another of lying and making disingenuous statements, we get ...

The future of Rockford's Barber-Colman site remains uncertain after a Rockford City Council vote squandered a $430 million chance to eliminate a vast eyesore along a major city gateway Monday night.

"Well, they shake their heads and they look at me, as if I've lost my mind… " — John Lennon, "Watching the Wheels" Music inspires us, soothes us and unites us. The unity part is most appropriate as we ...

ROCKFORD -- "I think the prayer was a fire starter it was the spark and now we have a flame, and we have excited people moving forward and even with the down vote there are still individuals saying ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even as community activists ramped up pressure on Rockford City Council to find a way to resurrect a proposal to redevelop a ...

ROCKFORD — Rockford aldermen will make one of the biggest votes in Rockford's history on Monday night. Before them, a $420 million redevelopment deal for Barber Colman which has sat blighted off of ...

A potential $430 million redevelopment of the 22-acre former Barber-Colman factory campus could transform a sprawling eyesore along a major gateway to Rockford into a thriving neighborhood of more ...

The job of an effective alderperson isn’t to be a habitual contrarian, nor a careless rubber-stamper. Good alderpersons ask questions and make decisions they deem to be in the best interest of the ...

An amendment that threatened to kill a plan to redevelop the dilapidated former Barber-Colman campus in southwest Rockford has been thrown out. Mayor Tom McNamara broke a tie vote Monday at City ...

Music inspires us, soothes us and unites us. The unity part is most appropriate as we strive for solutions so a blighted area of our city can be redeveloped into a complex that residents in the area ...