According to a Rockford PD press release, the crash took place in the 5500 block of Forest Hills Road in Rockford on Wednesday, prompting an immediate response from Winnebago County Sheriff’s Deputies, along with officers from the Loves Park Police Department and personnel from the Loves Park F...
On this date in 1949, four Forest Service smokejumpers made the first jump east of the Mississippi River and the first parachute jump ever made onto the Washington Ellipse, the oval park between the Washington Monument and the White House. The jump was even televised, which is how President...