Briggs is a World War One Veteran originally from Augusta, GA. Following his service, he eventually came to Rockford in search of work. After opening Briggs Hotel, it became the center of black ...

Briggs, recognized as the city's first African American hotel owner, will soon be commemorated with a special tribute on the streets of Rockford. The honorary street name designation will ...

The shooting broke out as a U.S. Marshals task force was making an arrest. The suspect in the fatal shooting of a sheriff's deputy Thursday at a hotel in Rockford, Illinois, has now been taken ...

ROCKFORD — Briggs Mansion, one of the city's oldest residences, is for sale for half a million dollars. The amount of time and effort that Bob Raleigh poured into it barely shows — but that ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- A McHenry County Sheriff's deputy has died after he was shot while helping a federal task force serve an arrest warrant at a Rockford hotel ... in central Illinois near Lincoln ...