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Elyce Billany
Chief Marketing Officer | Fortress Bank AGE: 34 Home: Bettendorf Education: Bachelors degree Hometown (childhood): DeWitt, Iowa First job? Activity coordinator at a nursing home How long at your current job? Four years Best advice ever received? “If…
QC home show highlights latest products, trends
Delano White looked like he was a man on a mission Saturday morning, April 27,…

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…

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…

Students ‘kick start’ career search at symposium
Kenny Fouse greeted people with a smile and firm handshake on Tuesday, April 23, as…

Illinois’ unemployment rate remains stable in March
While Illinois’ nonfarm payrolls grew by 12,700 jobs in March, the state’s unemployment rate remained…

‘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…

Public-private partnerships key to helping QC end poverty
To help the Quad Cities chart a new course to end poverty community leaders are…

‘Taste of East Moline’ feeds people, helps community
East Moline was a foodie paradise Thursday night, April 18. Hundreds of food fans were…

‘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…

Park Vista celebrates its new common area room
The new common area room inside the Park Vista Retirement Living – North Hill facility…

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,…

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…

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.…

QCR Holdings celebrates 30 years as it nears $10B mark
When QCR Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Quad City Bank & Trust, was created…

QCBT still banking on relationships, service today
When the Quad Cities experienced a series of bank acquisitions in the 1990s, local banker…
