Rockford
Rockford is a city in the Rock River Valley in Northern Illinois. With a population of over 145,000, it is the third largest city in the state.Photo: Pi.1415926535, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: jim simonson, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 149,000 residents
- Description: county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “Rockford, IL”, “Rockford, Illinois”, and “The Forest City”
- Postal codes: 61101-61110, 61112, 61114, 61125, and 61126
Places of Interest
Highlights include BMO Center and Memorial Hall.
BMO Center
Stadium
Photo: Milwaukee 148, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The BMO Center is a multi-purpose arena located in downtown Rockford, Illinois, United States. It is currently home to the AHL's Rockford IceHogs hockey team.
Memorial Hall
Museum
Photo: IvoShandor, CC BY 2.5.
Veterans Memorial Hall and Museum one of the oldest museums in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States is located one block west of the Rock River in downtown Rockford, Illinois.
Burpee Museum of Natural History
Museum
Photo: Krazy19Karl, Public domain.
The Burpee Museum of Natural History is located along the Rock River in downtown Rockford, Illinois, United States, at 737 North Main Street.
Rockford
- Categories: city of Illinois and locality
- Location: Rockford Township, Winnebago, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.2714° or 42° 16′ 17″ northLongitude
-89.094° or 89° 5′ 38″ westPopulation
149,000Elevation
715 feet (218 metres)IATA airport codes
RFD, ZRK, and RMCUnited Nations Location Code
US RFDOpen location code
86JG7WC4+HCOpenStreetMap ID
node 153748224OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
4907959Wikidata ID
Q233892
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Rockford” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “روكفورد,الينوي”
- Arabic: “روكفورد”
- Armenian: “Ռոքֆորդ”
- Basque: “Rockford”
- Belarusian: “Рокфард (Ілінойс)”
- Belarusian: “Рокфард”
- Bengali: “রকফোর্ড, ইলিনয়”
- Bengali: “রকফোর্ড”
- Breton: “Rockford”
- Bulgarian: “Рокфорд”
- Catalan: “Rockford”
- Cebuano: “Rockford (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Illinois)”
- Cebuano: “Rockford”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕۆکفۆرد”
- Chechen: “Рокфорд”
- Chinese: “Rockford”
- Chinese: “罗克福德”
- Chinese: “羅克福德”
- Cornish: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Cornish: “Rockford”
- Croatian: “Rockford”
- Czech: “Rockford”
- Dagbani: “Rockford”
- Danish: “Rockford”
- Dutch: “Rockford”
- Egyptian Arabic: “روكفورد”
- Esperanto: “Rockford”
- Finnish: “Rockford”
- French: “Rockford”
- Georgian: “როკფორდი”
- German: “Rockford”
- Gilaki: “راکفؤرد”
- Greek: “Ρόκφορντ”
- Gujarati: “રોકફોર્ડ”
- Haitian: “Rockford, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Rockford”
- Hebrew: “רוקפורד”
- Hindi: “रॉकफोर्ड”
- Hungarian: “Rockford”
- Ido: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Ido: “Rockford”
- Indonesian: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Irish: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Irish: “Rockford”
- Italian: “Rockford”
- Japanese: “ロックフォード”
- Kannada: “ರಾಕ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
- Kazakh: “Рокфорд”
- Korean: “락포드”
- Korean: “록퍼드”
- Ladin: “Rockford”
- Latvian: “Rokforda”
- Lithuanian: “Rokfordas”
- Malagasy: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Malagasy: “Rockford”
- Malay: “Rockford”
- Marathi: “रॉकफोर्ड”
- Mazanderani: “راکفورد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rockford”
- Navajo: “Tsé Biiʼ Tóńlį́”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rockford”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rockford”
- Norwegian: “Rockford”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hroccford”
- Persian: “راکفورد، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “راکفورد”
- Piemontese: “Rockford”
- Polish: “Rockford”
- Portuguese: “Rockford”
- Romanian: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Romanian: “Rockford”
- Russian: “Рокфорд”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Rockford”
- Serbian: “Рокфорд, Илиноис”
- Serbian: “Рокфорд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rockford”
- Sicilian: “Rockford”
- Silesian: “Rockford”
- Sinhala: “රොක්ෆෝර්ඩ්”
- Slovak: “Rockford”
- Slovenian: “Rockford”
- South Azerbaijani: “راکفورد، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Rockford (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Rockford”
- Swahili: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Swahili: “Rockford”
- Swedish: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Rockford”
- Tagalog: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Tagalog: “Rockford”
- Tamil: “ராக்போர்ட்”
- Tatar: “Рокфорд (Иллинойс)”
- Tatar: “Рокфорд”
- Telugu: “రాక్ ఫోర్డ్”
- Thai: “ร็อกฟอร์ด”
- Turkish: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Rockford”
- Ukrainian: “Рокфорд (Іллінойс)”
- Ukrainian: “Рокфорд”
- Urdu: “راک فورڈ، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “راک فورڈ”
- Venetian: “Rockford”
- Vietnamese: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Rockford”
- Volapük: “Rockford”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rockford, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rockford”
- Welsh: “Rockford, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Rockford”
- Western Panjabi: “روکفورڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “罗克福德”
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