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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rockford activists, elected officials and area residents are rallying their support behind a $430M redevelopment project that was ...

Update, 7/18 2:21 p.m. — The City of Rockford posted a tweet reporting that J. Jeffers & Co will start its first $170 million phase of Colman Yards. COMMENT FROM J JEFFERS: With the July 17 City ...

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.

ROCKFORD, IL — Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara and Joshua Jeffers of J. Jeffers & Co. on Feb. 17 announced the resumption of the massive estimated $430 million historic redevelopment project at the former ...

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 ...