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Visiting the Rockford area in 2024? Here are 10 new restaurants and bars to check out

2024 has just started, and there's already plenty of restaurant and bar news. Here are just some places planning to open their doors soon.

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Special Report With Bret Baier

the american people are very unhappy with the state of the economy. >> we're in a better position than any country in the world to lead the world, we're coming back and it's about time. >> reporter: president biden leaves st. croix as the most unpopular president running for reelection since the end of world war ii. a majority of democrats don't want him running for reelection and a vast majority of americans think he's too old. mike. >> lucas tomlinson live in saint crew, lucas many thanks >> as migrants overwell large cities and suburbs the number arriving at the border is setting new records. dane spunt has details tonight. good evening david. >> reporter: good evening. 2023 ended on a record note heading into the new year. new numbers from the u.s. border patrol reveal immigration officials processed more than 300,000 migrants along the southern border in december. mike, that is an all-time monthly high. yesterday a plane carrying several hundred migrants from texas arrived north west of chicago in rockford, illinois,

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Chris Jansing Reports

far surpassing the previous record that was set in september. but as they arrive, the texas governor is sending more and more of them away to democratic-led states and cities around the country. nearly 500 arrived by bus in new jersey over the holiday weekend. more than 350 others sent by plane to rockford, just outside of chicago. they arrived after midnight on new year's day. and george solis spoke to one migrant who has been living in limbo since last summer. >> reporter: he has lived here for six months, telling me he's illegally selling coffee on the street, but with good reason. he's not going to just sit around and wait for a handout, he's going to work to provide for his family. >> let's bring in antonia hylton, jonathan lemire, host of "way too early," julian castro, msnbc political analyst.

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Katy Tur Reports

who's only been on the job about eight months, he says quote, it is unsustainable. chicago doing similar what's going on in new york. having new rules for the buses. a little bit longer time period than 8:00 to noon. more like 8:00 to 5:00, but texas going around dropping not just buses, but a plane load of migrants to the suburban areas. another town, rockford, not too far away. and what we're seeing is while illinois and the city of chicago say we are a sanctuary state and sanctuary city, kuz dozens of suburban towns are saying no thank you. they're putting in ordnances saying no, we don't want the migrants. in fact, when they are dropped off at these suburban towns at the train stations in the middle of the night, the migrants are given bus tickets to bring them into the city of chicago. >> politically, is it going to play in this next presidential cycle? do you think voters will be

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Plane from Texas drops off over 300 migrants at Rockford airport, buses sent to Chica

Plane from Texas drops off over 300 migrants at Rockford airport, buses sent to Chicago: officials Story by WLS • 36min December 31, 2023 S

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To beat Trump, Nikki Haley tries to expand coalition, and fast

Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley has risen in opinion polls in recent months largely on the back of college-educated, affluent, suburban professionals, many of whom have tired of Donald Trump's caustic rhetoric and legal troubles.

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Your turn: Writing some of the brightest chapters of Rockford's history in 2023

"We have had an incredible 2023 and have positioned ourselves to accelerate Rockford’s transformation in 2024," writes Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara.

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Michigan school district sued over alleged use of opposite sex pronouns, student's name ch

A Mich. school district has been slapped with a lawsuit after a student's parents said staff at a middle school referred to their daughter using male pronouns.

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School sued by parents who claim district concealed their child transitioning

Parents in Rockford are suing the public school district they say concealed the fact that their child began transitioning socially, using a male name and pronouns

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Mexican restaurant with 'life of its own' behind multiple Rockford area spinoffs

Rockford is quickly becoming a hot spot for Mexican food, much of which was grown out of a single restaurant some thought would initially fail.

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