The event will honor the long history of welcoming immigrants in both Rockford and the United States, particularly highlighting the stories of U.S. immigrants who arrived through Ellis Island in ...

Between 1892 and 1954, more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known.

There was a time when the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island welcomed the tired, the poor, the “huddled masses yearning to ...