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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

Fair Oaks Foods’ new $134M plant now sizzling in Davenport  

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.  Fair Oaks announced its soft opening in a blog post…

The Group turns the night purple to celebrate Pinc

Her medical family at The Group – Obstetrics & Gynecology Specialists, P.C. will continue to…

Explore aviation careers at Girls in Aviation Day 

The Quad Cities International Airport (QCIA), along with John Deere and Elliott Aviation, are aiming…

Fastest-growing Revive to expand again in 2023

The remarkable thing about the QCBJ’s inaugural Fastest Growing Quad Cities Company isn’t just the…

Rock Island downtown ‘on cusp of new era of revitalization’

The wheels are in motion to create a special service area (SSA) in Rock Island…

Bettendorf water park, ice rink plans questioned, praised

Bettendorf’s plans for a new swimming pool complex, an ice rink and a transformed Life…

Quiet zone plans starting to make noise in the Quad Cities

With the prospect of train traffic tripling in the Quad-Cities, the words “quiet zones” are…

Q&A: New Group O leader: ‘I thrive on change’

This has been a year of transition for Group O.  After the death of company…

Safer Foundation leadership transitions in the Quad Cities

The non-profit Safer Foundation has finalized the leadership transition for its Quad Cities offices. In…

Safer Foundation Quad Cities’ leadership team, from left, is Assistant Director Brian Monroe, Director Erica Lee and I-MATTER Program Manager Sue Davison. CREDIT SAFER QUAD CITIES 

I-MATTER provides troubled young adults with education, job training

The new I-MATTER program, launched by Safer Foundation, is providing jobs and educational opportunities for…

Untamed Equity focuses on TIF lending

A new startup company launched by Emily Blaylock – and spun out of Northwest Bank…

Moline 150 promises music, arts, food, fun, history and more

After seven months of planning, Moline Sesquicentennial organizers are putting the finishing touches on a…

Moline 150 logo

Q&A: Bettendorf Mayor Bob Gallagher comments on railroad merger

With the battle still brewing locally and regionally over the merger of the Canadian Pacific…

New Augustana College president gets ready for big year

These are busy, hectic days for Andrea Talentino, the new president of Augustana College. Since…

Rock Valley Physical Therapy spreads patient-first gospel

From its 1984 founding by a single physical therapist in a drafty barn of a…

Brewery moving into old churches: ‘Match made in Heaven’

CLINTON, Iowa –  A brewery/restaurant operation in Illinois is expanding to Clinton, where it will…