Thursday, May 13, 2010

Rolling Green neighborhood pulls together after slayings

Link to May12 Rockford Register-Star article.

Excerpt:  The Rolling Green subdivision in southeast Rockford is a cluster of modest, working-class homes on gently curving streets that up until a handful of years ago was known only as a well-established neighborhood where generations of families raised their children.

Then came the floods in 2006 and 2007, the infamous back-to-back deluges that left dozens of homeowners awash in bills for foundation work and new furnaces and water heaters.

And now, back-to-back double homicides
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