Loving Your Neighbors

Loving Your Neighbors

Barb Chidley is the Neighborhood Specialist for the City of Rockford. A Dixon native, she taught English at Auburn High School for six years before moving to her current role. In a recent conversation at her office in City Hall, Barb talked about creative ways to meet...

Bridging boundaries

by Jim Killam | 5-minute read   Before First Free moved to its current location in 1980, it was a fixture in a vibrant Rockford neighborhood called Midtown. Today, Bob and Jill Campbell spend most of their waking hours continuing to invest in the spiritual health...

Coffee in the driveway

by Rob Ullrich | 4-minute read   “It’s hard to believe, but this used to be a nice place to live.”  My dad’s car crawled past sagging houses, half hidden behind waist-high weeds.  “There. That was our place. Over there, the Olsons and there, the Zimmermans.” He...