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CherryVale Mall (originally The Mall at CherryVale) is a shopping mall in Rockford, Illinois, along its border with Cherry Valley.Located at the intersection of US 20, Interstate 39, and Interstate 90, the two-story mall is the largest shopping mall in northern Illinois outside of suburban Chicago.
TAN Books was founded in 1967 as TAN Books and Publishers in Rockford, Illinois, by Thomas Aquinas Nelson (not to be confused with the founder of the Bible-publishing firm Thomas Nelson) to keep in print books teaching traditionalist Catholicism in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. [1] TAN was subsequently acquired by Saint Benedict Press ...
Some stores were branded as Weise's. The Weise's flagship location was in Rockford, IL. In 1957, a second Peoria Bergner's location opened at the then-suburban Sheridan Village Shopping Center. Between 1961 and 1973, the Sheridan Village location sold the most merchandise per square foot of any department store in the United States.
Some organizations within the three-day movement license Cursillo material, while other groups develop similar programs under another name, or even deviate from the three-day structure. [ citation needed ] The broader three-day movement enjoys much collaboration: different organized groups provide mutual ongoing support, expressed through ...
Cursillo is the original Catholic three-day movement, and has since been licensed for use by several denominations.Some of which have retained the trademarked "Cursillo" name, while others have modified its talks/methods and given it a different name.
The Coronado Performing Arts Center (originally the Coronado Theatre), in Rockford, Illinois, is a 2,400-seat theatre, designed by architect Frederic J. Klein. The theatre cost $1.5 million to build, and opened on October 9, 1927.
Sundstrand Corporation was founded in 1926 as a merger of two companies started by Swedish immigrants: the Rockford Tool Company and the Rockford Milling Machine Company in Rockford, Illinois. It was known as Sundstrand Machine Tool Company until 1959 when shareholders voted to change the name to Sundstrand Corporation.
The Rockford Institute was an American conservative think-tank associated with paleoconservatism, based in Rockford, Illinois. [2] Founded in 1976, it ran the John Randolph Club [ 3 ] and published the magazine Chronicles .