A mural in downtown Bettendorf is almost complete. Quad City artist Bill Gustafson was selected by the downtown Bettendorf organization to create the mural across from city hall. (, ...

As local legend goes, the bridge served as an escape route for Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger. The notorious outlaw crossed it in a stolen car while high-tailing to Chicago after a shootout ...

Since Epic’s grand opening in late May, Disney World has added two stage shows at Hollywood Studios. The revamped Test Track ...

The Committee appointed by the New-York stockholders of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, returned from Davenport to-night. Mr. TRACY withdrew, and all the matters have been amicably adjusted.

Nora Junction was the crossing of the Milwaukee and Rock Island railroad lines and was located just a short distance west of ...

Rock Island Railroad operated it as a toll bridge until 1938, when the Legislature made it free to cross. As local legend goes, the bridge served as an escape route for Depression-era bank robber ...

The city is planning a 350-foot bridge spanning the same gap as the trestle that burned. The $2.2 million project would connect the Rock Island Trail with the Jamaica North Trail.

New Cassel was founded by former enslaved people freed by a group of Quakers in the mid-1700s, thus becoming one of the ...

1854: The Rock Island Railroad connected Chicago to Lockport and the Mississippi River. Admission to see "new and sensational" auto-polo matches at Comiskey Park on June 7-8, 1913, ranged from 25 ...

In the fall of 1852, the Rock Island Line hired Farnam to build the railroad. On Feb. 22, 1854, the completion of the railroad to Rock Island was celebrated with a gala dinner in Rock Island.

Community festivals don’t take a holiday per se, as both Central City and Merna combine their annual shindigs with Fourth of ...