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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…

Fair Oaks Foods ramping up at new QC plant

Nearly five years after a national search for an expansion site led Fair Oaks Foods,…

Some five years after beginning its search for an expansion site, Fair Oaks Foods, LLC, quietly began operations recently at its new Davenport plant in the Eastern Iowa Industrial Center.  CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

New clinic will help create a healthy community

MUSCATINE, Iowa – Tom Bowman looked over the new Community Health Care, Inc. (CHC) Muscatine…

QC Restaurant Week shines on four Service Stars 

Visit Quad Cities honored four restaurant professionals for their outstanding service as part of the…

Blain’s Farm & Fleet recognized for employee mental well-being

Blain’s Farm & Fleet has been named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Mental Well-Being…

‘Economic instability’ spurs jobless rate increase in QC

The unemployment rate in the Quad Cities region is up to 6.2%, and the total…

More production employees called back by John Deere  

John Deere announced today that nearly 50 additional employees will return to work this month…

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Open Bay will be ‘designed around people’

 Wendy and Chris Hermann are getting ready to make their longtime dream come true by…

Dress for Success Quad Cities to host community open house

Dress for Success Quad Cities will host a public open house from 9 a.m. to…

Special needs expert to present QC workshop for Thrivent

Thrivent Financial Advisors Thomas Brooke and Lillie Huhndorf, based in Davenport, will host an educational…

Orion Bancorp. hosts 135th annual meeting 

ORION, Illinois – Orion Bancorporation, Inc., the parent company of BankORION and Bridge Community Bank,…

Birthwork Foundation awarded $150K grant by TCI

The Birthwork Foundation is one of 10 nonprofits in Iowa and Colorado to share in…

The Eddy will host grand opening celebration on Friday

A new event venue in the Village of East Davenport will get its official welcome…

Food Truck Fridays start this week in LeClaire

LECLAIRE, Iowa – The Food Trucks Fridays event starts Friday, April 10, in this community.…

Gold, silver prices send coin shops on ‘exciting ride’

Neil Edwards loves his coins. On March 15, the Davenport man came to the 88th…

Caden Kahl, 11, sorts old pennies during a recent coin show in Muscatine, Iowa. CREDIT DAVE THOMPSON

Black Hawk College EMS program earns national accreditation

Black Hawk College  announced this week that its Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Professions – Paramedic…