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Road Trip Iowa highlights LeClaire, its businesses, people
LECLAIRE – Many of the businesses, people and places of this community were featured on an Iowa PBS TV show on Wednesday, May 1....
QC Farmers’ Market’s 3rd season opens Saturday in Rock Island
QC Farmers’ Market leaders say they are excited to return to Rock Island’s Schwiebert Riverfront Park on Saturday, May 4, for a third season...
‘Industrial marvel’ tank returns to Arsenal
Lucas Voss remembers when a World War I-era tank arrived in his work area at the Rock Island Arsenal for restoration work a few...
Immigrants called QC’s ‘best kept secret’
Niyera Ninette remembers coming to the United States from Tanzania about 15 years ago and getting her first job. That job was at a...
Community honors Rock Island’s retiring police chief
Richard Landi was the center of attention on Friday, April 26.
He didn’t like all the attention, but was grateful for the kind words, gifts...
Life Breads celebrates year of joy, tears, bakery goodies
When Meg Reed gets on the phone, she knows it might be an emotional conversation.
“People call us up and thank us and they end...
March QC unemployment rate up, nonfarm jobs down
The Quad Cities was one of 11 Illinois metropolitan statistical areas to see over-the-year increases in its March 2024 unemployment rates. At the same...
HNI Corporation reports strong first quarter earnings
MUSCATINE, Iowa – HNI Corporation announced sales of $588 million and net income of $17.7 million for the first quarter, ended March 30.
In a...
QCIA project will help create a new Gateway to the future
The Quad Cities International Airport has not only launched the initial phase of Project Gateway – the first public-facing terminal modernization at the Moline...
QC leaders laud LaHood’s call to go all-in on passenger rail
Regional leaders who have been part of the more than 16-year fight to win passenger rail service to the Quad Cities are applauding the...
Secretary awarded piece of old I-74 Bridge he helped replace
Bi-state leaders seized the chance at the inaugural QCBJ Transportation and Infrastructure Seminar to formally thank “living legend” Ray LaHood for laying the foundation...
Putnam highlights ‘success stories,’ local innovators
Visitors to the new Quad City Innovators exhibit at the Putnam Museum and Science Center in Davenport will see an old chair at the...
QC home show highlights latest products, trends
Delano White looked like he was a man on a mission Saturday morning, April 27, at the Davenport Spring Home Show.
He visited one table...
Day of Caring: 1,600 volunteers tackle host of QC projects
Michelle Ritter was busy pushing a wheelbarrow filled with mulch to the many places that will have flowers and other plants outside the Quad...
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,...