Prepare to be swarmed with Sock Monkeys at the 20th anniversary of Sock Monkey Madness. This year’s theme is Rockford Sports with tons of Rockford Peach photo opportunities. Kids can make their own ...

My summer clean-out has really turned up a lot of old socks, and for a third week we’re doing another project for the kids using socks; and this week we’re making a classic favourite of kids… the sock ...

Adele Jedynak makes monkey sounds to a group of kids who are steps away from playing Sock Monkey bowling and plush-primate parachuting. It's all part of the Sock Monkey Madness Festival, the eighth ...

The famed sock monkeys of Rockford’s Midway Village museum, profiled in March 2007 by Q, are swinging their way up in the world, brushing shoulders with renowned primate researcher Jane Goodall. If ...

happy thought Sock Monkey Show is good medicine Riverwest's Flying Fish Gallery is currently featuring The Sock Monkey Show. Consequently, the small, sunny storefront is stocked with 170 sock monkeys ...

ROCKFORD (WREX) — Sock Monkey Madness, a one-of-a-kind annual event, returns as a celebration of the past by highlighting Rockford’s once thriving knitting industry and the iconic stuffed sock toy ...

Winking, handmade sock monkeys are the latest companions for young patients who have lost an eye at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics Ophthalmology Department. The project, which began this ...

The Sock Monkey Museum in Long Grove, Ill. About 35 miles northwest of Chicago, there's some serious monkey business happening. Open since 2022, the Sock Monkey Museum houses nearly 2,100 of the plush ...