The 11-player Benedictine University flag football team sat in a stretching circle just outside the walled turf field at ...

Photos from the first women’s college flag football game in Illinois between Benedictine and Rockford on March 8, 2025, at the Walter Payton Center in Lake Forest.

It was a huge win — even in defeat. Benedictine University in Lisle played Rockford University in the first collegiate ...

Former Wisconsin transfer A.J. Storr reminded college basketball fans of what he's capable of on a national stage on ...

Six Rockford area teachers were awarded the Golden Apple for teaching excellence during surprise deliveries. Here's who won.

International Women's Day — the Bears hosted the first ever collegiate women's flag football game in the state of Illinois, featuring Benedictine University and Rockford University.

Women's flag football teams from Rockford and Benedictine University faced off on International Women's Day in the Walter Payton Center at Halas Hall, marking the first collegiate matchup of its kind ...

ROCKFORD, Ill (WREX ... We were the first college/university at any level to start a women’s flag football program in Illinois, and now we are making history again when we will be playing ...

There was no better way to honor International Women's Day than by making history at the Walter Payton Center with two women's college ... Illinois. Women's flag football teams from Rockford ...

Kellie Kim, a special education resource teacher at Cherry Valley Elementary School, was awarded a Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching. Kim, the first special education resource teacher ...

Not long after Al returned from the army, he and Connie settled in Rockford, IL and soon thereafter their son Andre and daughter Alicia were born. Al returned to college in 1964 and graduated from ...