East Rockford
UP YBE51 rolls past the century-old C&NW depot on Rockford's east side in the hauntingly desolate 7th Street business district in Midtown. Like most of Rockford, Midtown was once a predominantly Swedish-American neighborhood, and many of the original Swedish settlers came to Rockford via the Galena and Chicago Union and later the C&NW. The neighborhood declined in the 1980s as Rockford's manufacturing industry crumbled and the population base moved east towards the Tollway.
East Rockford
UP YBE51 rolls past the century-old C&NW depot on Rockford's east side in the hauntingly desolate 7th Street business district in Midtown. Like most of Rockford, Midtown was once a predominantly Swedish-American neighborhood, and many of the original Swedish settlers came to Rockford via the Galena and Chicago Union and later the C&NW. The neighborhood declined in the 1980s as Rockford's manufacturing industry crumbled and the population base moved east towards the Tollway.