Yeah, you’re right about the West side, but this happened on the Southeast side. Just a few blocks from my old neighborhood.
My uncle had a laundry on 20 on east side. Cousins lived nearby and went to Rockford East. That was decades ago. I was at Iowa at same time as Nolden Gentry from Rockford West. A great basketball player and good man and lawyer over the years. A west side success story...for a change.