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Angelica Villarreal

Project Manager | IMAN Consulting AGE: 37 Home: Moline Education: M.S. in Education – Educational Studies, 2024, Western Illinois University, Moline;  B.Ed. in Bilingual/Bicultural/ESL Education, 2016, Western Illinois University, Moline. Family: Spouse Ethan and child Lee Hometown (childhood): Tucson, Arizona…

QCBJ’s Forty under 40 Class of 2025

ARA launches Safe Tenting Standard

Muscatine Foundation reaches $100M in assets 

Made in Iowa: How a Second-Generation Family Manufacturer is Shaping the Future of Industrial Safety

In the heart of the Midwest, Grace Technologies is proving that innovation, engineering, and manufacturing…

New EM BIG program eyes business growth, revitalization

The City of East Moline has launched a new Business Improvement Grant (BIG) Program to…

City of East Moline Logo BIG Program

QC Rehabilitation Institute names Stubbs as CEO

Shannon Stubbs has been appointed as chief executive officer of The Quad Cities Rehabilitation Institute…

Apply for energy assistance program beginning Oct. 1

Funds are available to assist income-eligible households with natural gas, propane and/or electric bills as…

Project Now Energy Assistance

First Central to host Grilling for Charity event

DEWITT, Iowa –  First Central State Bank will continue its tradition of Grilling for Charity…

Entrepreneurs Summit leader: ‘We can grow together’

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

RI celebrates talents, generosity of 2025 Citizens of the Year

A “serial volunteer,” the executive director of the Rock Island Downtown Alliance, a restaurant known…

De’Andre Robinson Rock Island

Doris & Victor Day Foundation awards $800K to QC, RI nonprofits

The Doris & Victor Day Foundation has awarded $800,000 in grants to 58 nonprofit organizations…

grant applications open Doris & Victor Day Foundation

Downtown RI Grand Prix street karting race blasts off Aug. 30-31

The prestigious 30th Xtream Rock Island Grand Prix, the world’s largest karting street race, will…

RI County Democrats hosting 56th Salute to Labor Picnic

The Rock Island County Democratic Party’s 56th Annual “Salute to Labor Picnic” will be from…

Rock Island County Democratic Party Salute to Labor Picnic

MLK Center invites Community to Soul of the City 2025

The Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center will present Soul of the City 2025, a…

Soul of the City Martin Luther King, Jr. Center Rock Island West End Revitalization

Vibrant coffeehouses prepare for next chapter, new owners

Three years and hundreds of thousands of cups of coffee after launching the first of…

Hand in Hand to expand People with Purpose dayhab program

Hand in Hand will be opening an additional People with Purpose day-habilitation program on Monday,…

Hand in Hand People with Purpose program

JA survey reveals gap in formal AI education

As students return to classrooms this fall, a new survey is showing a disconnect between…

JA of the Heartland Volunteer AI

‘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…