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Better Health Foundation announces grant awards

The Better Health Foundation (BHF) is helping area nonprofit organizations by investing in programs and services that contribute to the region’s health. The independent, private foundation recently announced Capacity Building and Service Support grant awards totaling $1 million for 19…

Air Force combat vets to get specialty Illinois license plates

Illinois State Sen. Mike Halpin’s measure to create specialty Air Force license plates was signed…

Air Force specialty Illinois license plate

Miller named BHC’s first president emeritus

Former Black Hawk College President Keith Miller has been named the college’s first-ever president emeritus…

WIU museum studies director wins Iowa leadership award 

Heidi Lung, the director of the museum studies graduate program at Western Illinois University in…

Deere confirms salaried worker cuts; outlines benefit package 

Faced with lower customer demand for its equipment, declining sales and a challenging ag economy,…

John deere economic earnings layoffs, job cuts,

Buy Sell Build QC brings ‘passion’ to region

P.T. Boeye is a fourth generation Realtor in the Quad Cities. He has seen the…

Molina Healthcare of Illinois donating backpacks in East Moline 

Molina Healthcare of Illinois is teaming up with Focus On Our Community Inc. to host…

Bi-State panel OKs $3M in TASA funds for QC trail projects

More than $3 million in U.S. Transportation Alternatives Set-Aside (TASA) funds have been approved for…

Transportation Policy Committee Bi-State Regional Commission TASA pedestrian transportation traffic safety

Senior Bix: 1,000 runners, walkers brave the rainy conditions

More than 1,000 runners and walkers hit the biking/walking trail in Bettendorf for the first…

Davenport’s Northwest Bank to be acquired by Time Bank 

Northwest Bank & Trust Company, a longtime family-owned bank, is being acquired by what the…

The golf might be over, but the work still goes on for Edwards Creative Services

The golf clubs, even the huge one attached to the John Deere 470 P-tier Large…

John Deere Classic fans take a minute to get a photograph Thursday, July 4, in front of the giant golf ball and driver mounted to a John Deere 470 P-tier Large Excavator at TPC Deere Run, Silvis. The driver was built by Edwards Creative Services in Milan. It weighs nearly 1,500 pounds and is big as a small bus. CREDIT TODD WELVAERT

New statue honors ‘true community hero’

A life-sized statue of Karl Ungurean now stands in downtown Davenport. The statue, wearing a…

Hinson takes command of Army Sustainment Command (ASC)

The U.S. Army Sustainment Command (ASC) headquartered on Rock Island Arsenal, now is under new…

Army Sustainment Command Rock Island Arsenal

3 QC chapters on Royal Neighbor’s Top 10 volunteer list

Three of its Quad Cities chapters made the Royal Neighbors of America 2024 list of…

chapters Royal Neighbors

QCBT’s Schmitt third new member added to QCREDA

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has added a total of three new members to the Quad…

Quad Cities Regional Economic Development Authority QCREDA Paul Schmitt

Solar energy project meeting set for Thursday in Camanche

CAMANCHE, Iowa – A massive solar energy project is being considered for Clinton County. The…