Jennifer DeWitt's stories

Downtown Davenport highlights $35M in projects pipeline, new branding

With dozens of shareholders and downtown businesses gathered, the Downtown Davenport Partnership looked back at a successful 2025 and forward to a promising 2026, trumpeting a full pipeline of pending projects and a bold new DDP brand. “We’re leaning into…

Be The Light Park honors memory of Ascentra’s Dale Owen

Family, friends and coworkers of the late Dale Owen formed a sea of orange as…

QC residents to be surveyed for new laborshed study

Researchers are studying the commuting patterns of the Quad Cities’ workforce to produce a new…

Quad Cities laborshed study

DDP offers $100k to help businesses shuttered by collapse

Davenport businesses devastated by the building collapse at 324 Main St. now are receiving help…

324 Main St.

Living Lands & Waters unveils classroom barge, new HQ

Living Lands & Waters (LL&W) has even more to celebrate this year as it makes…

Update: SENB Bank to unite with CBI Bank after merger

MUSCATINE, Iowa – CBI Bank & Trust will expand its footprint across the Quad Cities…

CBI Bank

Bettendorf marks its birthday by breaking ground on The Landing

The City of Bettendorf made a huge splash Friday, June 2, on its 120th birthday…

Crawford Company’s growth sprawls into west Rock Island

Sometimes the answer to your business’ challenge is closer than you think, and in Crawford…

Crawford Company

HNI completes $485M acquisition of Kimball International

MUSCATINE, Iowa – HNI Corporation has completed its acquisition of Kimball International after shareholders of…

Former Bettendorf Mayor Ann Hutchinson dies

Former Bettendorf Mayor Ann Hutchinson, whose financial acumen helped pull her city out of a…

Bettendorf seeks community support for The Landing 

The City of Bettendorf has launched a community campaign for The Landing project to raise…

Clinton County nonprofits connect, unite school supply drives

CLINTON, Iowa – A group of nonprofits are launching the Clinton County School Supply Project…

Vibrant branch in Bettendorf will add coffeehouse, kitchen

Vibrant is brewing up some changes with plans to convert its Bettendorf branch into a…

Vibrant Credit Union in Bettendorf

QCBJ announces Mid-Year Economic Review lineup 

Ellen Rissman, the assistant vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, will be…

Revv Aviation sends planes from QC to damaged flight school

A Kansas City-based flight school ravaged by a storm is back up and running thanks…

ATD Flight Systems

Bethany for Children & Families moving to historic Moline block

Bethany for Children & Families is relocating into the Caxton Block Building in a move…

Bethany for Children & Families