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Rock·ford

 (rŏk′fərd)
A city of northern Illinois west-northwest of Chicago on the Rock River, founded in 1834.
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Rockford

(ˈrɒkfəd)
n
(Placename) a city in N Illinois, on the Rock River. Pop: 151 725 (2003 est)
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Rock•ford

(ˈrɒk fərd)

n.
a city in N Illinois. 143,531.
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Noun1.Rockford - a city in northern Illinois
IL, Illinois, Land of Lincoln, Prairie State - a midwestern state in north-central United States
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Frontier Airlines, a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ: RJET), has announced a new non-stop service between Denver and Rockford, US.
"CENSUS DATA: Rockford may lose spot as Illinois' 3rd biggest city" warned the headline in the online edition of the February 16 issue of the Rockford Register Star, announcing the initial release of data from the 2010 Census.
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Harris Bank has announced the appointment of a managing director as well as a president in Rockford.
Richard Rundquist, the retired former owner of Rockford Foundries Inc., Rockford, Ill., recently was awarded the Rockford Register Star's Excalibur Award for "contributing to the community for more than 56 years," according to the paper.
Dougal was only hours old when he introduced himself to Rockford, a two-ton male white rhino in the Worcestershire park's African enclosure.
Fritz Jacobi announced his retirement as president and publisher of the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star Wednesday after eight years on the job.
Seated at the top of Rockford Powertrain driveshaft series is the new 20C model, the largest driveshaft the company produces.
Hooters Air will reduce service from the Greater Rockford Airport in Rockford, Illinois and end service effective 5 January 2006.
In a court-sanctioned auction last month, the Ingersoll International bankruptcy estate sold the balance of its American holdings (essentially Ingersoll Milling Machine in Rockford, Ill.) to Camozzi Group (Brescia, Italy), a family-controlled producer of pneumatic valves, textile machines, machine tools, and energy equipment.
If Chris Hedges were to speak at my graduation ceremony ("Heckled in Rockford," July issue), he would be lucky if rotten vegetables were not thrown at him.
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