Lafayette Hotel is opened and Coronado Theater is completed. Fred E. Machesney opens an airfield which on July 8 is designated Rockford's official airport. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh flies over Rockford after his history-making flight across the ocean. Construction begins on the first unit of the News Tower in Rockford. Bert R. J. Hassell and Parker B. Cramer take off in Greater Rockford airplane for Stockholm, Sweden via Northern Circle route.
Flight ends in a cornfield crash.
Second takeoff of Greater Rockford plane is successful. Fliers are lost in the Greenland area between Aug. 18 and Sept. 2, but return safely to a welcoming reception on Oct. 18. Rockford Morning Star, recently moved to new quarters at the southeast corner of N. Wyman and Mulberry Streets, merges with the afternoon Rockford Register-Gazette, founded in 1855. New St. Thomas High School for boys was completed on Mulberry Street, staffed by Christian Brothers. In September, Bishop Edward Hogan dedicates new Catholic high school for girls, named Muldoon in honor of Rockford's first bishop.