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Most Influential Leader Herrell conjures QC wins

Cheerleader, collaborator, visionary, sorcerer and alchemist. That’s how fellow Quad Cities leaders describe Visit Quad Cities President and CEO Dave Herrell, QCBJ readers’ choice for 2025’s Most Influential Leader. Fans also point to an impressive number of impactful wins the…

R.A. Jones celebrates 120 years of helping customers

The R.A. Jones company at 807 W. Kimberly Road, Davenport, has plenty to celebrate these…

Cinnamon rolls to drinks: New Bakehouse is open for business

The new Bakehouse in East Moline is more than a bakery that serves a lot…

Kraft Heinz plans a spinoff into two independent companies

The Kraft Heinz Co. – which boasts two large food production plants employing hundreds of…

QC Labor Day Parade honors unions, workers, community

Quintin Waterman was looking to the future and remembering the past Monday morning, Sept. 1,…

Sweet ‘magic’ returns as Chocolate Manor reopens in Davenport

Life may not always be like a box of chocolates, but they make life a…

Growing chain to launch Moline Tractor Supply Co. next month

With freshly painted exterior walls and prominent signage already in place at the future home…

Tractor Supply Co.

Entrepreneurs Summit leader: ‘We can grow together’

Catherine Tran knows this is an era when many immigrants feel uncertainty and fear when…

‘It was a blast’ – Rappellers go ‘Over the Edge’ to help kids

Pam Langfitt just rappelled down 11 stories (or 140 feet) on the north side of…

Black Hawk College’s renovated Building 2 ready for students

Rachel Savage is a big fan of Black Hawk College’s updated Building 2 on the…

‘There is a place for you in accounting’

Grant Wolford, 19, of Bettendorf, loves the world of accounting and finances. In fact, the…

Hilltop Campus Village residents offer thoughts on new master plan

The Hilltop Campus Village (HCV) in Davenport will eventually have streets and intersections that are…

LeClaire YMCA will be ‘real big deal for everybody’

LECLAIRE, Iowa – This community will soon have an $18 million “landmark” two-building YMCA facility…

FHG looks back on 75 years as it plans for future

Seventy-five years after it was founded as an eight-room motel on the historic Lincoln Highway…

Financial world looks to youth to save it from silver tsunami

The financial services industry is at a crossroads and at the center of it is…

$30M downtown RI federal building nearly complete

Major construction on the long-awaited federal courthouse in downtown Rock Island is slated for completion…