In response to declining membership at the YMCA of Belvidere, the organization reached out to form a partnership with the Rockford branch to keep its services intact.

Jarrid Maynard was sentenced to 3 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in May 2020.

The late Father Herman Porter is added to a list of priests released by the Diocese of Rockford who have credible sexual abuse allegations against them.