@Lucky188 yeah thank you for that, much appreciated ... I saw something else about it too a little bit ago as well - I'm not even originally from Rockford but been here 20 years...
I work about 5 miles out of the city so didn't get to see any of the removal and I live only a block and 1/2 from it... a lot of people said the same thing I did - what where when how & why (no one knew anything until after it happened)