Facts about Rockford!
Rockford is known as The Forest City, which once housed the Rockford Female Seminary... from which Chicago Hull House founder Jane Addams was a graduate.
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Facts about Rockford! Rockford is known as The Forest City, which once housed the Rockford Female Seminary... from which Chicago Hull House founder Jane Addams was a graduate. |
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| Sock monkeys were originally manufactured in Rockford. There is a "Sock Monkey Madness Festival" ~ a unique celebration of Rockford’s past by highlighting its knitting industry and boom of the stuffed sock toy which continues as a large part of America’s pop culture. Monkey-doo's anybody? | ||||||||
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| James Garner who played Rockford was also the star of the TV show Maverick of which Mel Gibson played the title character and Jimbo played good ol' Marshall Zane Cooper. Don't get to hear about enough men named Zane anymore. | ||||||||
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