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LOVES PARK, Ill. (WTVO) — Carlos Rosario and his mother have been running Carlito's Munchie Station and creating a bit of a food truck community over the last seven months that continues to grow. "My biggest thing and I will say it till the day I die is the sun shines for us all," said Rosario. "At the end of the day, you know, we like the local scene. We like the local mom-and-pop shops." "It's always usually a vibe. It's pretty fun out here. W…

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ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Rockford Fire responded to a fire in the Fire Department Coffee building on Thursday. Fire Department Coffee is a veteran and firefighter-owned roasting facility, and one of their businesses is located at 1311 Harrison Avenue. Employees called 911 with a report of a fire within the exhaust piping around 7:36 a.m. The fire extended to the roof of the structure. RFD arrived to smoke coming from the roaster's pipe and had th…

Fire Department Coffee experiences $10K in fire damages

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO/WQRF) — College football programs have been showing a lot of interest in Guilford junior receiver/safety Messiah Tilson. Northern Illinois University and Western Michigan are a couple of them who have been recruiting him from the Mid-American Conference. Now a Big Ten school has joined the list. Tilson indicated on his X account @mini_sago11 Thursday that he has received his first offer from a Big Ten program from the Univer…

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ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Rockford Police arrested Anastasia Cooper, 20, for allegedly strangling a woman and damaging the inside of a police vehicle.  On October 2nd, police were sent to the 900 block of 12th Street for a domestic violence incident. The woman told police she was packing her things to sleep somewhere else because Cooper was on narcotics. Cooper pushed the victim by her neck and threw a phone at her face, causing her lip to bleed, …

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ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The refugee crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced millions of African residents, hundreds of which are resettling in the Rockford area. Mustafa Abdall, President of Greater Rockford Arab Chamber of Commerce, says the Swahili Community Help Center group on Facebook and the WhatsApp chat app is attempting to assist the non-English-speaking refugees with finding homes and jobs in their new community.…

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DIXON, Ill. (WTVO) — Police in Dixon have identified three elementary school students reported to have made threats against two local schools on Thursday morning. According to the Dixon Police Department, around 7:41 a.m., both Reagan Middle School and Madison Elementary Schools received a phone call with a message that said, "Get ready for a school shootout today, bye." Police described the caller as sounding "like a young male." Staff were ale…

Three Dixon elementary students questioned over school shooting threat on Thursday

CHICAGO, Ill. (WTVO) — Gov. JB Pritzker announced Tuesday that the state will launch a $5 million "Make It in Illinois" manufacturing ad campaign to attract businesses from neighboring states. “October is National Manufacturing Month, which has special meaning for the leading manufacturing state in the industrial Midwest,” Pritzker said at an event at the Manufacturing and Technology and Engineering Center at Richard J. Daley College. The campai…

Illinois investing $5M in campaign to boost manufacturing industry

Halloween is just around the corner, and that can only mean one thing for one of the most decidedly American holidays in the entire history of forever; another mashup of rustic nostalgia and holiday-specific merchandizing. Indeed, per Today, McDonald’s has unveiled this year’s designs of the Happy Meal Boo Buckets, which are Happy Meal containers designed like trick-or-treat buckets. These spooky satchels first house the contents of a Happy Meal…

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The union for U.S. dockworkers and the United States Maritime Alliance have agreed to a tentative deal on wages and have extended their existing contract through January 2025 to provide time to negotiate a new contract.

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Former White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin said she thinks Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) debate performance showed he was “significantly more eloquent” than his running mate former President Trump.



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