City Stage Studios

821 1ST AVE, ROCKFORD, IL, 61104

City Stage Studios is a professional sound stage and film production studio in Rockford, Illinois, located at 821 1st Ave, billed as one of the largest and best-equipped soundstages in the Midwest outside the Chicago area. The main soundstage measures 65 by 47 feet (about 3,055 square feet) with a 17-foot ceiling and a 38-by-36-foot cyclorama. The facility also serves as a hub for creative professionals, offering a sound stage, photo studio and podcast space, and is home to production freelancers, photographers, content creators, designers and others. Productions filming there can take advantage of Illinois's tax incentives, and the studio is about an hour from O'Hare airport.