Have you been trying to find that perfect addition to your home décor? Or maybe you just can’t get enough antiques for your vintage collection. Then this is the show for you! The annual Spring Antique Spectacular Vintage Market will be taking place Friday through Sunday at the QCCA Expo Center in Rock Island. There will be 70 exhibitors with antiques and vintage items for purchase or for your viewing pleasure. These items will include great furniture, art pottery, country, stoneware, books, prints, primitives, jewelry, silver, antique glassware, American Indian items, china, postcards, coins,... Read More

Congratulations to the Davenport Community School District Williams Junior High 7th/8th grade chorus on their outstanding performance Thursday night at Davenport West High School. Shout out to chorus director Dawn Stone for helping get the students ready! Thank you to West High school for hosting the event! And big thank you to all the families for their support! And of course thank you our students for putting in the time and effort to prepare and put on a great show! Go Hornets!  Read More

Words really can’t express how disappointed I am in lawmakers — on both sides of the aisle — in BOTH Illinois and Iowa. I’m just tired of the empty promises, the delaying, the obfuscation, the laziness in putting off one of the biggest and most profound issues of the day that, again, BOTH parties from BOTH states should be addressing. And that is that neither state has officially adopted Def Leppard’s “Armageddon It” as the official state song. I mean, c’mon people. Or, ya know, in words of Joe Biden, “C’mon maaaan!” Listen, I mean,... Read More

Today, Thursday, March 2, Davenport West High School hosted the award-winning, best-selling author Nic Stone. Nic Stone is an American author of young adult fiction and middle grade fiction, best known for her debut novel “Dear Martin” and her middle grade debut, “Clean Getaway”. The event is in partnership with the Davenport Public Library in conjunction with a reading contest held last October. West High School students signed up and logged the most reading minutes with the public library and won the opportunity for Ms. Stone to visit their school.  Ms. Stone plans on taking questions... Read More

Davenport Community School District Elementary Schools NorthPark Mall Art Exhibit is going on through March 6th! There will be 14 sets of two-sided panels are set up in the NorthPark Mall between Rue 21 & Express Men, half-way between JC Penny and Von Maur. Schools featured include Adams, Blue Grass, Buchanan, Buffalo, Eisenhower, Fillmore, Garfield, Harrison, Hayes, Jackson, Jefferson, Madison, McKinley, Monroe, Truman, Walcott, Washington, and Wilson.    Read More

The Quad City Storm returns to Vibrant Arena Thursday to drop the puck on the most promotion-packed weekend in the team’s history!Thursday is Wrestling Night with dollar beers. The first 1000 fans 12+ in the arena receive a Storm adult jersey and after the game there will be an SCW wrestling show in the arena conference center.Admission to the wrestling show is included with a Storm game ticket. Puck drop for Thursday’s game is 6:10 PM.  Read More

Looking for a spot to showcase your talents? How about the Bootleg Hill open mic night? The musical open mic night is back. Happening weekly at Bootleg Hill Honey Meads in downtown Davenport. All are welcome. Hosted by Dan Fennesy and starts at 8 p.m.  Read More

Congressman Eric Sorensen (IL-17) delivered a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives expressing support for the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act which strengthens a worker’s right to form and join a union. “I’ve heard from so many working families across Central and Northwestern Illinois who feel left behind. Big corporations report record profits while workers struggle to make ends meet,” said Sorensen. “But let’s remember that it was the American worker who built this country. And it was workers, coming together to bargain collectively,... Read More

Blue October will perform at 7 p.m. tonight at The Rust Belt | East Moline, IL For more info, see here: https://bit.ly/TRBBlueOct Since 1998’s The Answers, Blue October has been touring the world with a boundless approach, generating north of 1 billion total streams and charting 16 hits. In 2006, Foiled earned a platinum certification and yielded signature anthems “Hate Me” and “Into The Ocean,” kicking off a prolific streak. In addition to six consecutive Top 30 album debuts on the Billboard Top 200, they scored three straight #1 entries on the Top Alternative Albums Chart with Any Man... Read More

Rock Island, IL- Sisters Haley Walker and Lauren Corwin will celebrate their new retail storefront location with a ribbon cutting for Brick & Motor Boutique on Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 at 3:00 PM. Sisters, Haley and Lauren, born and raised in Rock Island, IL, dreamt of opening their own mobile fashion boutique and with a little help from family, friends, and the man upstairs, their dream finally became a reality in July of 2018. Brick & Motor Boutique originally began as a “mobile” boutique, operating out of a trailer with the inside decorated for selling their boutique clothing and... Read More