If you're looking for a job, Target may be the place to apply. It was just announced that Target stores, including Rockford's, are bumping up their minimum wage starting this spring.
If you're a hair stylist looking for a job, JC Penney may be the place for you. The retail store is hiring hundreds of stylist for their Illinois salons.
If sitting at desk all day for work doesn't appeal to you but doing something where you get to work with your hands does, then Rockford Ironworkers 498 wants you. They offer an apprenticeship program to learn the trade and are accepting applications now.
New tenants are moving into the vacant Butterball plant in Montgomery, IL. The former turkey products plant will be a lunch meat facility.
Well that kind of move makes sense. I'm guessing that lunch meat makers need similar equipment that Butterball needed for their turkey products...
Move over trains and semis, Rochelle is looking to the skies for attracting business. So much so that it leaves me wondering if the 'Hub City' will become known as 'Drone City.'
Cafeteria lunches... we all have memories, good or bad, of standing in line with your tray waiting for the day's special to slopped on it. The Rockford Public School District is looking to hire lunch ladies, well not just ladies but guys too to help out for the school year.
Despite the black eye Rockford seems to get all the time, here's some good news. A local business is expanding their warehouse and will be adding more jobs to the area.