Teen readers (ages 11-19) are invited to take part in this annual teen challenge to see which QC Libraries’ teens can read the most during the month of October! Every QC teen reader who reads for at least 1,000 minutes will be entered into a grand prize drawing to win a $100 Visa gift card! Keep track of your minutes spent reading on www.davenportlibrary.beanstack.com, the Beanstack app, or a paper log that will be available in the Teen Area of participating libraries. As a bonus, Davenport teens will get a ticket to enter in exclusive prize drawings for every 250 minutes they log reading! Prizes... Read More

Illinois employers could be allowed to fire employees who refuse to get vaccinated or comply with other covid-19 regulations if a new mandate from Governor JB Pritzker is implemented. The Health Care Right of Conscience Act amendment would not allow employees to use their moral beliefs as a reason to refuse to comply with a workplace’s covid mandates, which could include mandatory vaccinations. State legislators are expected to take up the measure this week. The Health Care Right of Conscience Act has actually been a law since 1998 and was driven by healthcare providers having moral objections... Read More

Four Downtown Bettendorf businesses will share in more than $30,000 awarded through the new Façade Improvement and Commercial Interior Improvement grants by the Downtown Bettendorf Organization (DBO). DBO announced these grant recipients and projects: Façade Improvement Grants Tango Salon, 836 State St.; Leeann Themas, business and property owner; new façade work including milling headers, filling potholes and blacktopping the parking lot. ADSQ, 321 17th; Steve Cotton, business and property owner; will sealcoat a parking lot at 17th and Grant streets, remove a rock garden in front and add new... Read More

Are you ready? Steve Byrne will be performing in the Rhythm Room at Rhythm City Casino in Davenport on Thursday, October 28th! Get your tickets at The Market or on our website here while supplies last: https://rhythmcitycasino.showare.com/eventperformances…  Read More

The Quad Cities Cruisers are holding their latest car show, the Farmer’s Market Cruise In, from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Freight House, 421 E. River Drive, Davenport! The event is free and open to the public. Come check out the cars!  Read More

Davenport Community School District was honored with the Iowa Recycling Association’s (IRA) Best Sustainability & Education Program award. The award was presented in Cedar Rapids at the annual Iowa Recycling and Solid Waste Management Conference on October 5, 2021. Davenport Community School District’s environmentally friendly practices started decades ago and their efforts are still going strong. In 2019, they were awarded the U.S. Department of Education’s Green Ribbon School District Sustainability Award and was one of only five school districts nationwide to receive a Center for... Read More

Have a FRIGHTFUL good time tonight in downtown Rock Island with your little ghosts and goblins! Family-Friendly Fright Night will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. TONIGHT at Schwiebert Riverfront Park in Rock Island. Goodwill of the Heartland is one of the sponsors of the event, which is FREE for kids and families.  Read More

Through December 3, Quad City Arts presents “Art on Lockdown.” This diverse exhibition features 80 works of art by 67 regional artists. The public is invited to celebrate creativity at the opening reception on October 15 from 6-9 pm where most artists will be present, and refreshments will be served. As “Shelter in Place” began in March 2020, Quad City Arts’ staff searched for different ways to connect with the community and for a way to encourage artists to keep creating at a confusing time. As most non-essential workers found themselves working from home or not working at all, they... Read More

Western Illinois University School of Agriculture Alumnus Riley Hintzsche has been named a National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE) Teach Ag Champion. Hintzsche, a Streator Township High School agriculture teacher, and FFA chapter advisor, graduated from WIU in 2014, with a degree in agriculture education. He is one of three agriculture teachers nationwide to win the honor this year. Teachers were selected based on their passion and dedication to transforming agricultural education into a more inclusive and diverse profession, while cultivating the next generation of leaders, problem... Read More

Many Quad Citians who know of the Black Hawk War of 1832 may assume that the Sauk and Meskwaki people were forced far to the West after the war. While these tribal nations did sustain massive land losses after the war, Native people remained in the area for years, and of these, a significant number–many of them women–pursued land claims as individuals. Join us Thursday, November 4th at 6:30 pm at Fairmount St. (3000 N. Fairmount St.) for “Standing (on) Her Ground: Native American Women & Land Claims in Eastern Iowa” presented by Dr. Jane Simonsen of Augustana College. This presentation... Read More