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Rockford

county seat of Winnebago County, Illinois, United States
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Summary

Rockford is a city of Illinois[1]. Rockford draws 3,770 Wikipedia views per month (city of illinois category, ranking #5 of 15).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Winnebago County[3], Ogle County[4]
  • Country: United States[5]
  • Head of government: Thomas McNamara[6]
  • Shares border with: Durand[7]
  • Twinned administrative body: Ferentino[8], Borgholm Municipality[9], Cluj-Napoca[10]
  • Postal code: 61101[11], 61102[12], 61103[13], 61104[14], 61105[15], 61106[16], 61107[17], 61108[18], 61109[19], 61110[20], 61112[21], 61114[22], 61125[23], 61126[24]
  • Commons category: Rockford, Illinois[25]
  • Local dialing code: 815[26]
  • Inception: 1834[27], January 3, 1852[28]
  • Coordinate location: 42.27113, -89.094[29]
  • Official website: https://rockfordil.gov/[30]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Rockford, Illinois[31]
  • Commons gallery: Rockford, Illinois[32]
  • Population: 152,871[33], 148,655[34]
  • Office held by head of government: Mayor of Rockford, Illinois[35]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[36], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[37], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[38], The New Student's Reference Work[39]
  • Capital of: Winnebago County[40]
  • Official name: Rockford[41]
  • Category for people born here: Category:Births in Rockford, Illinois[42]
  • Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Rockford, Illinois[43]
  • Number of households: 62,011[44]
  • Native label: Rockford[45]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Rockford, Illinois[46]
  • Different from: Rockford[47]
  • Elevation above sea level: 218[48]

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Physical Characteristics

Areas include 167.010845[49] and 160.451467[50].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Rockford include Chicago Rockford International Airport[51], an international airport[52], in United States[53].

Why It Matters

Rockford has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] Rockford is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]

Entities named for Rockford include Chicago Rockford International Airport[51], an international airport[52], in United States[53].

Related Entities

Cluj-Napoca Ferentino Ginger Lynn James Henry Breasted Jodi Benson Michelle Williams Saint Anthony College of Nursing Steve Cherundolo United States Virgil Abloh

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

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Class ancestry

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [54] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [55] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Mahirtwofivesix · 2026-08-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    Babelnet id → 00068098n
    Arabic ontology lexical concept id → 151048890
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||4 */ added/modified IDs mapped to WordNet 3.1"
  2. 10w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Rockford
    Inception → —
    Capital of → Winnebago County
    Category for people born here → Category:Births in Rockford, Illinois
    + 31 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: rockford, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289964504|rockford (#289964504)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n"
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