more than 62-foot replica of Rick Nielsen’s iconic, checkerboard Hamer Standard guitar gracing the casino's entrance, while ...

Nielsen, whose family is from Rockford, is a storied guitar collector. He showed off some of the 400 guitars in his collection at the “Rick’s Picks” exhibit at the Burpee Museum of Natural ...

Rock ‘n roll fans were out in force as the hard-rocking group Cheap Trick took the stage at Brown County Music Center on ...