Housing costs are way below what you’d pay in bigger Illinois cities. You can find a nice apartment or even a small house on your $2,100 monthly budget. The downtown area has that classic small-town ...

Rockford is Illinois’s third-largest city, but the prices haven’t caught up with that fact. Your Social Security check can stretch pretty far here. Housing in Rockford is among the most affordable in ...

The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it has stopped producing pennies, ending more than 230 years of minting the 1-cent coin. The penny will remain legal tender and will still be accepted at ...

The U.S. Mint has ended production of the penny, a change made to save money and in recognition of the growing irrelevance of the 1-cent coin. The last pennies were struck Wednesday at the mint in ...

EMAIL TO NOT PERFORM ANY WORK RELATED TASKS. THE BUREAU HAS NOT COMMENTED ON THE CHANGES.### PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS HE HAS DIRECTED THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT TO STOP MINTING NEW PENNIES. THE PRESIDENT ...

Change is coming to how we make change, thanks to the impending demise of the penny. President Donald Trump ordered the Treasury Department, back in February, to stop minting pennies. His argument – ...