In 1958, Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate made headlines when they conducted a killing spree that would claim eleven lives. When the news broke about the couple, Rockford remembered another young couple and the case that was called the “Honeymoon Crime Tour”.
Lake Koshkonong is known today for water fun, great restaurants and fishing. But there is a rich history here, too. This lake had its beginning as a gathering place for several Native American tribes. They lived off the rich animal life and harvested the wild rice and celery that grew here. These people left amazing
Sue Fiduccia had seen a lot of deaths in her forty-three years with the Winnebago County Coroner’s Office. She had processed a lot of bodies to determined how they died while serving as coroner for over twenty-one years. But according to an article written in the Rockford Register Star on April 1, 2018, there was
Sometimes in today’s world it is hard to believe that a mysterious death would not have all the questions answered quickly. We have access to so much information online and there are so many forensic tests available to authorities that we often think that soon there will be no mysteries left. This is a falsehood
The Camp Grant Museum and Command Post Restaurant was a treasure trove of interesting history, told through actual artifacts of the men and women who served at Camp Grant. The museum owned by Stanley and Yolanda Weisensel was open for nearly twenty years before Yolanda retired and closed it in 2020.
Camp Grant was built in 1917, at the southern edge of Rockford Illinois, covered over five thousand acres, included over 1,100 buildings, and at its height housed over fifty thousand men. It was used as a training center for cavalry, machine gunners, engineers and artillery personnel during World War I. After the war,
Bridget Hart held her extensive family of two girls and six boys together after the death of her beloved husband, John. That tragedy had taken place in 1891. The family lived on a farm outside Winnebago, Illinois on Wolf Grove Road, about six miles away from Rockford.
On September 5, 1893, around three o’clock in
A September tornado in 1928 hit the manufacturing district of Rockford Illinois hard, and several died when the buildings they were working in collapsed. But nearby schools were spared. In the end, 14 people were killed and 80 hospitalized; and over 360 buildings were damaged or destroyed, half of them family homes.
In 1958, Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate made headlines when they conducted a killing spree that would claim eleven lives. When the news broke about the couple, Rockford remembered another young couple and the case that was called the “Honeymoon Crime Tour”.
Lake Koshkonong is known today for water fun, great restaurants and fishing. But there is a rich history here, too. This lake had its beginning as a gathering place for several Native American tribes. They lived off the rich animal life and harvested the wild rice and celery that grew here. These people left amazing
Sue Fiduccia had seen a lot of deaths in her forty-three years with the Winnebago County Coroner’s Office. She had processed a lot of bodies to determined how they died while serving as coroner for over twenty-one years. But according to an article written in the Rockford Register Star on April 1, 2018, there was
Sometimes in today’s world it is hard to believe that a mysterious death would not have all the questions answered quickly. We have access to so much information online and there are so many forensic tests available to authorities that we often think that soon there will be no mysteries left. This is a falsehood
The Camp Grant Museum and Command Post Restaurant was a treasure trove of interesting history, told through actual artifacts of the men and women who served at Camp Grant. The museum owned by Stanley and Yolanda Weisensel was open for nearly twenty years before Yolanda retired and closed it in 2020.
Camp Grant was built in 1917, at the southern edge of Rockford Illinois, covered over five thousand acres, included over 1,100 buildings, and at its height housed over fifty thousand men. It was used as a training center for cavalry, machine gunners, engineers and artillery personnel during World War I. After the war,
Bridget Hart held her extensive family of two girls and six boys together after the death of her beloved husband, John. That tragedy had taken place in 1891. The family lived on a farm outside Winnebago, Illinois on Wolf Grove Road, about six miles away from Rockford.
On September 5, 1893, around three o’clock in
A September tornado in 1928 hit the manufacturing district of Rockford Illinois hard, and several died when the buildings they were working in collapsed. But nearby schools were spared. In the end, 14 people were killed and 80 hospitalized; and over 360 buildings were damaged or destroyed, half of them family homes.
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