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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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Gray Media Teams Up with Chicago Sports Network: Free Sports Broadcasting for Rockford and South Bend Fans' In a significant move for sports enthusiasts in the Midwest, Gray Media (NYSE: GTN) has announced an exciting partnership with the Chicago Sports Network (CHSN) set to bring beloved local sports teams directly to viewers' screens. Starting next month, Gray's television stations in Rockford, Illinois, and South Bend, Indiana, will air games…

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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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Winnebago County welcomes more African refugees than any other Illinois county, outside of Chicago

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

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ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — A pair of Air Jordans led detectives to identify Austen Fowler, 31, as the man who shot at a robbery victim in 2023, according to the Winnebago County State's Attorney's Office. Austen Fowler, 31, was found guilty of the charge at a jury trial this week. Authorities said on May 2nd, 2023, Fowler was one of two men who attempted to rob a man at a home in the 3000 block of 7th Street.  The victim said two men, armed with gu…

Gunman convicted of attempted murder for shooting man during 2023 robbery

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27-year-old killed riding a motorcycle in the Adirondacks

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Rockford Police arrested William Butler, 69, for allegedly manufacturing and delivering 9 pounds of cannabis. On October 1, around 9:58 a.m., officers searched a house in the 1300 block of Harding Street with an approved search warrant. Authorities found Butler among other people before securing the house. Officials said they found a little over 9 pounds of cannabis in total throughout the house along with almost 11,000 d…

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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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