Without more details, it is difficult to give a specific recommendation. For starters, I'd be curious to know how far away from Grand Rapids you actually are as Rockford is quite close. Knowing that the station comes in fine in your car and also knowing that you get "static" on all the radios in your house on the station you are chasing, I'm going to take an educated guess that you have something electronic in your house generating RF interference. Easy way to test that is to set a portable radio to a weak station that you can at least kind of hear and then shut off the main power to your house (if you don't mind doing that) and see if reception improves. LED lighting is one known culprit, as is network connections over ethernet cable. There are many others.
Now, for more general recommendations. I've had the best luck with just plain ol' rabbit ears combined with a low-amplification (10db as opposed to 20db or more) FM amplifier. You gotta be careful when selecting either of these components as most "modern" rabbit ear sets don't extend past 15 inches and a lot of amplifiers explicitly filter out FM between 88 and 108 mhz. So if it were ME setting up something, I would go with the following components:
$14 new-old-stock Vintage pair of 39-inch rabbit ears:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/126163551108
$14 Belkin 10db signal amplifier:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/121730151409
$8 pair of 75/300 ohm adapters:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/235253365524
Grand total - $36.
So the rabbit ears connect to one of the balun adapters. That connects to the input of the amplifier. The other balun adapter connects to the output of the amplifier, which, you can then use speaker wire to connect that to your stereo, so long as it is a short run. For longer runs, instead use co-ax cable from the output of your amplifier and connect it to the reverse version of that balun adapter - one of these (which, just chop those ends off and strip the remaining wire for 1/4-inch or so and connect that to your stereo):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/134786300542
FINALLY, the last step to optimization is setting the length of your dipole antennas. Use the calculator here -
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/dipole - you enter your station's frequency and then set the antenna lengths each to exactly the quarter-wavelength. That will range from 27 to 34 inches each rod depending on what station you're targeting.