100 years on the road from Rood’s Woods

Link to March 27 Rockford Register Star article.

Excerpt: One day it would have a water park, a pair of sports complexes, five golf courses, two ice rinks and a petting zoo. But during the turn of the last century, what would become the Rockford Park District was known better as Rood’s Woods.

That was the name of the stand of trees near downtown Rockford — now called Sinnissippi Park — where the Park District began.