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.

After taking a small break, ‘180 Degrees’ is back

September 25th, 2008 at 01:52am Jennie Pollock

The Rockford Register Star’s ongoing project, “180 Degrees: Solutions for a Better Rockford,” started with an introduction in May. We’re examining how Rockford has fared over the past three decades in five key areas: crime, culture, education, economy and government. Moving forward, we will focus on how the community can work together to tackle challenges and capitalize on successes.

We published the crime segment in May, and this month, we introduce culture. Culture is an example of a success so far: Back in the early 1980s, we had no MetroCentre, Magic Waters, Volcano Falls, Carlson Ice Arena or Rockford RiverHawks.

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