Rockford, Illinois

Rockford is the second-largest city in Illinois, after Chicago. There is a beautiful Japanese garden there (Anderson Japanese Garden) and a lovely botanic garden. It's also got a nice museum campus - art museum/children's museum. You might remember the Rockford Peaches from the movie "A League Of Their Own" - that was a real team. Famous people from Rockford: Aidan Quinn, Jodi Benson, the band Cheap Trick, and DCI Division I champs the Phantom Regiment drum and bugle corps.

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