Forest City Swing

Forest City Swing An organization focused on the community to provide fun and family-oriented entertainment, offering swing dancing in Rockford, IL.
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Open only on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 7:00 pm -10:00 pm. We started our group in the late Spring of 2000. We decided to start our swing dancing group because we enjoyed dancing and there wasn’t a place to swing dance in the Rockford area. We contacted the Rockford Brewery (now Lots-A-Pasta which is also out of business), and they hosted our Thursday night dances. We were at the brewery

for 3 months and we had to move again. Two weeks after we left the brewery, we found the Legion Hall in downtown Cherry Valley and hosted our swing dancing there for 6 years before the building went through renovations. Edward Church Community Center and we had to move again in 2009 because of the Community Center renovations. Currently we are at our new permanent location Mt. Olive Lutheran Church located on 2001 N. Alpine Road, Rockford, IL. We started with 15-20 people while we were at Cherry Valley and now our average attendance is 80-90 people during the school year and 90-200+ in the summer. In 2002 we finalized our group and made it official. We named ourselves “Forest City Swing”. Forest City Swing’s goal was to provide a fun place for people of all ages to go and dance, however FCS became more than that. In 2003 we started our Annual Swing Out Rockford Event. This was a great opportunity to bring in a live swing band and have a big swing party. More importantly, we decided that since we are a nonprofit group, we would donate the net proceeds of the Swing-Out Rockford Event and the Net proceeds of the money collected at our dances to local charities around the Rockford Area. To date we have donated over $55,000 to charity since 2003.

05/24/2026
05/22/2026

Thanks everybody for a fun night! 155 people came out to dance with us!

04/17/2026
Wow, what a night! 135 people came out to dance with us! Thank you all, and we'll see you next month!
04/17/2026

Wow, what a night! 135 people came out to dance with us! Thank you all, and we'll see you next month!

110 people tonight. Thanks for joining us everyone! Hope to see you again next month! ❤️ Until then, check out these 2 f...
02/20/2026

110 people tonight. Thanks for joining us everyone! Hope to see you again next month! ❤️ Until then, check out these 2 fliers for more dancing in the area!

01/16/2026

122 people came out to dance with us tonight! Thank you! Can't wait to see you again next month. ❤️

Dance with us tonight at Holy Family Church on Alpine Rd. from 7-10! The dance floor is ready!
01/03/2026

Dance with us tonight at Holy Family Church on Alpine Rd. from 7-10! The dance floor is ready!

01/01/2026

Get out your dancing shoes and join us for the 2nd annual swing dance to benefit the Teresa Noelle Knabe Memorial Foundation

12/28/2025

We will be teaching the Shim Sham line dance this month in the main lobby from 8:45-9:00pm!

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2001 N Alpine Road
Rockford, IL
61107

Opening Hours

7pm - 10pm

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