We Are Rockford

If your kids are obsessed with squishies, you might want to check out the Meijer in Rockford. They're stocking way more than you'd expect.

After more than a decade in Illinois, Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg are selling their massive St. Charles home and heading to Las Vegas.

Thyme and Again Farm has become a family favorite and the Rockford area's highest-rated pumpkin patch, earning 4.9 stars from Google reviewers.

Think the Beef-a-Roo comeback was stopping with one restaurant? Think again. Three more Rockford-area locations are expected to reopen soon.

Those strange green balls popping up at Illinois farm markets are hedge apples, and many people swear they keep pests away. But does this old-fashioned trick actually work?

Some of the chains will close a handful of locations while others are ceasing operations entirely.

Illinoisans want one time year-round instead of springing forward and falling back, yet legislative attempts to make it happen keep failing.

Illinois insects have wildly different winter playbooks, from bees shivering in clusters to queens sleeping solo underground for months.

Illinois isn't out of the Bears stadium race. Roger Goodell met with Gov. JB Pritzker and lawmakers, with November's veto session now looming.

Rockford is saying goodbye to Lucha Cantina after more than 13 years. The popular restaurant will close permanently Sunday, October 4, giving fans one final weekend for tacos, margaritas and memories.