Isaac Guerrero
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Rockford, IL, United States
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Winnebago County Board ponders what's next after administrator's departure
ROCKFORD — Winnebago County interim administrator Steve Chapman may leave his post within a couple of months, but it's not clear how the County Board will fill the leadership vacuum when he leaves. Board members have debated whether to hire another interim leader or a permanent administrator when Chapman leaves. Some board members want to hire a permanent administrator as soon as possible, given… → Read More
Uncertainty looms over Winnebago County chairman's job
Subcommittee cool to letting voters weigh in on 'executive' style of governance → Read More
Winnebago County state's attorney detours Chairman Frank Haney's legal odyssey
ROCKFORD — Winnebago County State's Attorney Marilyn Hite Ross has stalled — is trying to derail — Chairman Frank Haney's legal crusade to reclaim his executive power.Haney's personal lawyer, Ken Florey, was appointed in June by Judge Donna Honzel as the chairman's special state's attorney — the first step of Haney's plan to roll back ordinance changes that the County Board has approved since… → Read More
Winnebago County Board considers management shake-up
Not all board members support proposed 'chief human resources officer' position → Read More
Winnebago County rethinks business incentives
Host fee program may offer no-interest loans instead of grants → Read More
Winnebago County Board tries to salvage 911 talks
ROCKFORD — The Winnebago County Board may decide next week which board members will help salvage negotiations with a coalition of municipalities that that the county is asking to help pay for 911 dispatch services.Sheriff Gary Caruana and Loves Park Mayor Greg Jury held a news conference in February to announce that, after months of arduous talks, a coalition of municipalities would either begin… → Read More
Rockford's airport, busy with Amazon cargo, to add 500 jobs
Rockford is seeking a 15-acre expansion of the airport's cargo apron that would allow many more cargo jets to park at RFD. → Read More
Tax rebate for Costco to top $4.2M
Loves Park offers developer up to $7.3M more to lure retail to Riverside corridor → Read More
Rockford lights up Miracle Mile business district
ROCKFORD — The city's Miracle Mile business district is dark no more.With a flip of the switch, city and business officials turned on new streetlights Tuesday that are designed to brighten and beautify the central Rockford business district.Work began last year to install the decorative streetlights between Fairview Boulevard and Alpine Road, a corridor travelled by more than 23,000 vehicles a… → Read More
Longtime Rockford Register Star journalist Brian Leaf dies
ROCKFORD — Brian Leaf had awful penmanship, and if tasked with writing his own obituary he'd probably blow his deadline and his prose would be → Read More
Rockford's Lydia Urban Academy must raise $40K or close its doors
Twenty students attend the high school dropout recovery program for 14- to 19-year-olds. → Read More
Feds charger former Winnebago County purchasing director with embezzlement
ROCKFORD — Federal prosecutors have charged former Winnebago County Purchasing Director Sally Claassen with embezzling at least $5,000 from the county in 2014 and again in 2015.Claassen, who ran the Purchasing Department since 1997, was placed on administrative leave in August and resigned Sept. 11.County administrators say she used her county-issued credit card to buy some $60,000 worth of… → Read More
Loves Park's Hoff Disposal turns trash into cash
LOVES PARK — Eric Hoff makes a living turning trash into treasure.His company, Hoff Disposal, became the only locally owned garbage hauler after Winnebago Landfill and its affiliate, Rock River Disposal, were sold to a Texas firm last year.Hoff's path to the top of the heap, so to speak, was an unlikely one. Thirteen years ago, he was battling back pain and wondering how long he could last as a… → Read More
Rauner's business prescriptions are popular, but no cure-all
ROSCOE — A Harvard company that designs, services, builds and supplies hydraulic, pneumatic and motion-control parts is relocating to Roscoe and expanding the footprint of its new facility before construction has even finished.Illinois' courtship of All World Machinery Supply was a classic love triangle. Beloit, Wisconsin, wooed the company, but Roscoe, a town of nearly 11,000 just across the… → Read More