180 Degrees
Want an inside look at a yearlong project by journalists at the newspaper and the Web site to help Rockford solve serious problems and turn around? We’re focusing on five areas that are key to our way of life in the Rock River Valley: Crime, education, the local economy, state and local government and our culture/sense of place. Would you like to help us in this campaign to bring about change? Give us your ideas and insights and help guide us to better solutions for Rockford. You can join the conversation here.

Archive for May 5th, 2008

What’s up next?

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We started talking in depth this morning about the next piece of the project, a look at crime and how we got to where we are over the last three decades.

Judy Emerson has been digging into the topic for a couple of months, and we’ve outlined the main stories she’ll write. We want the online experience to be all that and a whole lot more, so tomorrow we will be plotting that strategy.

Already, we have one video in hand, with Police Chief Chet Epperson, and we will be producing many more.

What would you most like to know about crime in Rockford?

Make a difference; join our campaign

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We’ve already gotten some response from readers who want to help turn Rockford around. Do you want to help? Find out how here.

We also asked you for your hopes and dreams for Rockford. Here’s what Terry Carl of Loves Park had to say.