Local coverage
Project conversations across The Rock River Valley.
Coverage depends on independent provider availability. Each page below explains useful housing and site context for that community.
Loves Park
Decades unincorporated before 1947 left drainage infrastructure built piecemeal along the Rock River.
Local planning notes →Machesney Park
A Rock River-adjacent town whose utilities predate its own 1981 municipal government.
Local planning notes →Belvidere
Wind-driven storm damage from the 1967 tornado is as much a part of the town's history as the Rock River watershed.
Local planning notes →Roscoe
Layered river-settlement, stagecoach, and interurban-era growth sits at different grades relative to the Rock River.
Local planning notes →Rockton
Formed at a two-river confluence where high water once took out the original 1851 bridge.
Local planning notes →Cherry Valley
Built on the faster-reacting Kishwaukee River rather than the Rock River itself.
Local planning notes →Winnebago
Grew up around an 1850s rail corridor, so drainage grading wasn't designed around a waterway.
Local planning notes →Byron
Sits on the same Rock River stretch that cools the Byron Nuclear Generating Station.
Local planning notes →