Alex Gary | July 2, 2024 BELOIT – Two local small businesses will receive $10,000 each to upgrade the look of their stores thanks to grants from American Express and Main Street America. Bountiful Beloit and Chic & Unique were two of just 500 businesses across the country and 59 in Wisconsin and Illinois to Read more…

Clint Wolf | Jun 30, 2024 Updated Jun 30, 2024   BELOIT — Works of Rockford Art Guild artists and the creations of Nancy Mayhew will be featured at the Beloit Art Center in July.   The First Friday Gallery Reception will be held from 5 — 7 p.m. July 5 at the Beloit Art Read more…

The project will start indoors with no impact to traffic, although a few parking spots will be blocked off. By Ally Horst | Published: Jun. 28, 2024 at 4:16 PM CDT   BELOIT, Wis. (WIFR) – A vacant building in downtown Beloit will soon be demolished to make way for a public riverwalk and a Read more…

Alex Gary | Jun 27, 2024 Updated Jun 28, 2024   BELOIT — The history of the East Grand Avenue building that curiously extends over the Rock River dates back to 1892. And for more than 100 years Wisconsin state officials have wanted the building gone, according to the Beloit Historical Society records.   Tom Read more…

Caroline Dade | Jun 27, 2024 BELOIT, Wis. (WKOW) — Starting next week, crews will start work to demolish a building on East Grand Avenue in downtown Beloit. The work will make way for a public riverwalk and a new building.   The city said the first phase of work will be inside the building Read more…

Isabella Ferak Jun 27, 2024   BELOIT, Wis. — A project to demolish the building at 80-100 East Grand Ave. in downtown Beloit will begin its first phase next week, the City of Beloit announced Thursday.   The city said the planned public-private development involves the vacant structure that protrudes over the Rock River, which Read more…

A vacant building hanging over the Rock River in Beloit is coming down to make way for a new river walk and four-story commercial/residential building.   The project to demolish the building at 80-100 East Grand Avenue in downtown Beloit begins next week.   The City of Beloit was awarded a Municipal Flood Control Grant Read more…

By: Michelle | Published June 12, 2024 It’s always Taylor Swift season in Beloit, Wisconsin thanks to a custom apparel shop that’s stocked the shelves with your favorite Taylor tchotchkes.   For anyone who thought loving Taylor Swift was just a craze, by now you probably know you were wrong. She’s been famous for years Read more…

Visit Beloit’s summer lunchtime concert series returns to the First National Bank Plaza. Public Relations Specialist Savannah Schnidler says Fridays in the Park will happen every Friday from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. through September 20. Schnidler says the event features a different musical act and a different featured restaurant every week. This Friday features Read more…

  Wisconsin Stateliners are freaking out, Rockford Art Deli is opening a new location in Beloit, welcome ‘BAD.’   Downtown Rockford, Illinois is in pretty good shape these days. We have thriving restaurants, a new fancy hotel, boutiques popping up everywhere and the number one spot to grab a t-shirt to show how much you Read more…