The Rockford City Council approved a $325,000 plan to buy a temporary site for the city's public library.
The library’s current site at 215 N. Wyman Street sits on contaminated soil from a local coal-to-gas plant. The necessary cleanup work by ComEd will require demolishing the building and constructing a new site.
Library materials will move to 214 and 230 Church Street, formerly the site of the Winnebago County Resource Intervention Center, as well as the Comcast building.