Rockford Institute

| founder = John A. Howard | founding_location = Rockford, IL | named_after = Rockford College | purpose = cultural advocacy | type = nonprofit | status = 501(c)(3) | tax_id = 36-3062112 |budget=Revenue: $467,026
Expenses: $1,148,857
(FYE June 2016) | headquarters = | website = | merged = Charlemagne Institute | dissolved = | successor = Charlemagne Institute }}

The Rockford Institute was an American conservative think-tank associated with paleoconservatism, based in Rockford, Illinois. Founded in 1976, it ran the John Randolph Club and published the magazine ''Chronicles''. In 2018 the Rockford Institute merged with the Charlemagne Institute (renamed from Intellectual Takeout in 2018), which became the new publisher of ''Chronicles''. The Charlemagne Institute describes itself as "leading a cultural movement to defend and advance Western Civilization, the foundation of our American republic."

''Chronicles,'' the Rockford Institute, and since 2018 the Charlemagne Institute have been described as central to the paleoconservative intellectual movement. ''Chronicles'' peaked in the 1990s and helped shape the paleoconservative revival that accompanied Patrick Buchanan's 1992 and 1996 presidential campaigns. At its peak, it had 15,000 subscribers. As of September 2016 there were 6,700 subscribers. Provided by Wikipedia