By Kevin Haas
Rock River Current
ROCKFORD, IL — For the past five months, a team of dozens of workers at a sign and visual communications company in Baltimore, Maryland, have meticulously crafted the future showpiece for Hard Rock Casino.
Next week, the nearly 63-foot-tall replica of one of Rick Nielsen’s signature checkerboard guitars is expected to make its debut. It has already struck a chord with its makers at Gable in Baltimore and with locals who see it as a future landmark.
