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The company was founded in Rockford, Illinois, in 1870 with Amos W. Woodward's invention of a non compensating mechanical waterwheel governor (U.S. patent No. 103,813). [4] [7] Thirty years later, his son Elmer patented the first successful mechanical compensating governor for hydraulic turbines (U.S. patent No. 583,527). [8]
Revenue. $1.3 billion. Number of employees. 6,750. Website. www .mercyhealthsystem .org. Mercyhealth is a non-profit health care system based in Rockford, Illinois. It is a regional health care system with over 85 facilities serving a total of 55 communities throughout southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. [1]
OSF HealthCare employs nearly 24,000 Mission Partners in more than 145 locations, including 15 hospitals with 2,089 licensed acute care beds - 10 acute care, four critical access and 32 urgent care locations and two colleges of nursing throughout Illinois and Michigan.
Website. testors.com. Testor Corporation (or Testors) is an American manufacturer of tools and accessories for scale model kits. The business is based in Rockford, Illinois, and is part of RPM International. [1] It was founded in 1929 and its products are made in the US and marketed to customers worldwide. [2]
The BMO Center (formerly known as BMO Harris Bank Center and Rockford MetroCentre) is a multi-purpose arena located in downtown Rockford, Illinois, United States. It is currently home to the AHL 's Rockford IceHogs hockey team. The arena formerly served as the home of several defunct minor league sports teams, including the Rockford Lightning ...
The Rockford Register Star is the primary daily newspaper of the Rockford, Illinois, metropolitan area. The fifth-highest circulation newspaper in Illinois, the Register Star takes its name from the 1979 merger of two predecessors, the Register Republic (founded February 15, 1855, daily since January 6, 1873) and the Morning Star (founded March ...
Rockford, Illinois. / 42.27113°N 89.094°W / 42.27113; -89.094. Rockford is a city in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States. Located in far northern Illinois on the banks of the Rock River, Rockford is the county seat of Winnebago County (with a small portion of the city located in Ogle County ). The population was 148,655 at the ...
Illinois Tollway. / 41.80611°N 88.05111°W / 41.80611; -88.05111. The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority ( ISTHA) is an administrative agency of the U.S. state of Illinois charged with building, operating, and maintaining toll roads in the state. The roads, as well as the authority itself, are sometimes referred to as the Illinois ...