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Rockford

noun

A city in northern Illinois.

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"Rockford" Quotes from Famous Books

... close to the wood that it is difficult to harvest the fruit and avoid injury to the berries next to the wood. The variety is worthy of extensive culture in vineyards and gardens. Regal originated with W. A. Woodward, Rockford, ...

— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick

... city of Rockford, Illinois, was located Camp Grant where thousands of Negro recruits gathered from cities and factories, farms and plantations of our country, were given the needed intensive training to fit them to sustain the glorious traditions of the American soldiers. We ...

— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller

... without really loving him. He found her interesting, principally because she was young, debonair, sufficient—a new type. They met in Chicago after a time instead of in Wisconsin, then in Detroit (where she had friends), then in Rockford, where a sister had gone to live. It was easy for him with his time and means. Finally, Duane Kingsland, wholesale flour merchant, religious, moral, conventional, who knew Cowperwood and his repute, encountered ...

— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

Words linked to "Rockford" : urban center, metropolis, il, Illinois, city, Land of Lincoln, Prairie State