This beloved department store was founded in Minneapolis in 1902 by George Draper Dayton. It became the Dayton-Hudson corporation after a merger in 1969. Dayton’s was more than a shopping trip for clothes and furnishings, It was...

Back in the day when home video game systems were a new and exciting invention, Mattel introduced Intellivision. Test marketed in 1979, it went nationwide in 1980. From 1980-1983, three million units were sold. Intellivision’s unique controller was...

The first industry to define Rockford was furniture. The river and dense forests were perfect for the milling of lumber. With the arrival of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad came Swedish immigrants. These immigrants brought their craftsmanship...

Madison Central High School was the city’s first high school dating all the way back to the 1850s. It was originally known simply as Madison High School. In 1922, it became Madison Central after Madison East High opened. Known as the Tigers,...

The Milwaukee Road is a famous American railway system that operated for more than a century in the nation’s heartland. Officially known as the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, the Milwaukee Road was famous for its speed...

No place in St. Louis rocked like Mississippi Nights rocked. The classic music club on North First Street in Laclede’s Landing opened in 1979 and, over the next 28 years, hosted some of the music industry's biggest acts including AC/DC,...

The Peaches were a professional women’s baseball team that played from 1943-1954 in Rockford, Illinois. They were a part of the All American Girls Professional Baseball League. The Peaches were one of two teams to play in every AAGPBL...

This is a symbol once used by the City of Peoria. 100% cotton twill. Six panel jockey shape. Unstructured. Cloth backstrap with tri-glide buckle and tuck-in. Weight: .5 lbs    

Rockford Products is the reason Rockford is nicknamed “Screw City”. The idea for this worldwide manufacturer, importer, and distributor of fasteners and other industrial products came from the idea of one man, Swan Hillman. In...

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The National Lock Company was founded by three Swedish industrialists in 1903 because they saw a need for furniture locks. The company’s product line soon expanded to include kitchen, appliance and furniture hardware, door locks, fasteners, and...

Originally called the Rockford Scooter Company, the Rockford Motors Company's first import was a scooter called the Silver Pigeon from the Mitsubishi Corporation. In the sixties, the company received the exclusive rights to sell and market the...