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Children’s Therapy Center celebrates 75 years of helping kids
Joe Garcia has great things to say about the 75-year-old Children’s Therapy Center of the Quad Cities (CTC).
The Rock Island man is a caretaker...
Students ‘kick start’ career search at symposium
Kenny Fouse greeted people with a smile and firm handshake on Tuesday, April 23, as he visited one business representative after another.
The Davenport West...
Illinois’ unemployment rate remains stable in March
While Illinois’ nonfarm payrolls grew by 12,700 jobs in March, the state’s unemployment rate remained flat at 4.8%, according to statistics from the Illinois...
‘Building on a dream’ – Vera French center to be renovated
The Vera French Community Mental Health Center in Davenport will soon get a nearly $2 million renovation.
The project, which will begin soon and could...
Public-private partnerships key to helping QC end poverty
To help the Quad Cities chart a new course to end poverty community leaders are working to Level Up residents, lift up neighborhoods and...
‘Taste of East Moline’ feeds people, helps community
East Moline was a foodie paradise Thursday night, April 18.
Hundreds of food fans were lined up inside The Rust Belt to try ribs, cornbread,...
‘All hands on deck’ – Volunteers pack lunches for Safer Foundation
A small army of volunteers bagged up more than 2,000 sack lunches on Wednesday, April 17, to help the Safer Foundation Quad Cities’ annual...
Park Vista celebrates its new common area room
The new common area room inside the Park Vista Retirement Living – North Hill facility in East Moline has many friendly faces.
Those faces –...
Downtown Rock Island gets set for $8.7M in improvements
An $8.7 million plan to rebuild parts of downtown Rock Island will spur economic development, attract more businesses and more customers, and transform downtown...
Glass Heritage: Restoring stained glass, building relationships
The glass is an eye catcher.
It could be 100-year-old, stained-glass windows creating waves of color in churches or homes. It could be new etched...
New Operating Engineers union hall will make ‘powerful statement’
A new state-of-the-art union hall building will soon start taking shape in southwest Rock Island.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held last week for a multi-million...
QCR Holdings celebrates 30 years as it nears $10B mark
When QCR Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Quad City Bank & Trust, was created 30 years ago, bankers warned the founders, Mike Bauer...
QCBT still banking on relationships, service today
When the Quad Cities experienced a series of bank acquisitions in the 1990s, local banker Mike Bauer and tax accountant Doug Hultquist seized the...
LaHood urges QC to go all in on passenger rail service
Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood celebrated the Interstate 74 bridge by calling on local leaders to get aboard a new all-out effort to...
QC passenger rail project gets glimmer of hope
Transportation and infrastructure projects are quickly moving forward in the Quad Cities. That might even include progress on a long delayed passenger rail service...
Interim president challenges WIU to create brighter future
There are bright days ahead for Western Illinois University, but to get there it must end deficit spending, increase and diversify funding, and expand...
Bandits celebrates stadium award with free admission April 21
Dave Heller has a party planned -- and the entire Quad Cities area is invited.
The longtime owner of the Quad Cities River Bandits announced...
Bix 7’s 50th race to ‘showcase the best’ of the QC
Paul Schmidt held a small statue close to him during a ceremony to help kick off this summer’s 50th running of the Quad-City Times...
Rock Island gets set for ‘exciting, fun’ downtown project
“This is the beginning of an exciting, fun” project for downtown Rock Island.
That’s the word from Rock Island Mayor Mike Thoms as he helped...
Meatball’s Sandwich Co. will reopen on April 15
Kyle Yohe says the time is right for a meatball sandwich comeback story.
Mr. Yohe and his wife, Rachel, plan to reopen their Meatball’s Sandwich...