Tentative date: 3rd Weekend trip to Rockford, IL

Rockford, IL is our "distant" weekend trip this year. It is just under 4.5 hours from Clayton, MO.

"Rockford is ... located in far northern Illinois on the banks of the Rock River." Rockford is "the fifth-most populous city in Illinois as well as the most populous outside the Chicago metro area.
"Settled in the mid-1830s under the initial name of Midway, Rockford became strategic for industrial development, stemming from its location roughly equidistant between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi River." from wikipedia.

Tentative plans of things to see:
Friday: Rockford History walking tour with Gary Anderson. At 5:15 - we'll get dinner after. Cost - it is donation to the Historic River District association - request is $8-$10 per person

Saturday events:
9:00am! an early one: Frank Lloyd Wright Laurent House (only FLW house designed for the disabled) - cost: $18-$20
Midway Village and History Museum: Cost $10 ($14 if we add the Victorian Living History Museum on to the regular museum)
Lunch
Tinker Swiss Cottage House Museum: Cost: $10
Ethnic Heritage Museum (featuring galleries on the African-Americans, Hispanic, Irish, Italian, Lithuanian, and Polish people who helped establish Rockford. Cost: $7
Possibly the Graham-Ginestra House (if time) Cost: $5

Sunday: St Stanislaus Annual Polish Festival of Rockford