Letter From Rockford

The little guys and gals had hadrnenough. Three hundred and forty-sevenrnproperty owners signed the petition —arnfull 63 percent; the statute required onlyrn51 percent. Still, Mayor Box would notrnconcede. The city, which had declaredrnthe number of properhes in the taxingrndistrict to be 550, hired a local title companyrn(paradoxically named . . .