Making its eagerly awaited July 8 through 10 return after an unanticipated summer off, the 41st Walcott Truckers Jamboree at the Iowa 80 Truck Stop will showcase exhibits, displays, games, cookouts, fireworks, local and national country musicians, and even a beauty contest for trucks in celebration of America's big rigs and those who drive them.

Nominated for five 2001 Tony Awards and currently the ninth-longest-running Broadway musical of all time, the internationally beloved Mamma Mia! – running at Moline's Prospect Park Auditorium July 9 through 18 – becomes the first Quad City Music Guild production to enjoy live performances since 2019, with the show's collection of timeless ABBA tunes inspiring the New York Post to call the experience “one of those nights when you sit back and let a nutty kind of joy just sweep over you.”

A massively successful book that became a massively successful movie will be the subject of the latest evening of factoids at the Tangled Wood, with the Bettendorf venue, on July 6, inviting Hogwarts-minded Muggles to share their knowledge of All Things Potter during its Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix Trivia Night.

Designed to bring some serious swing into the summer, the John Deere Classic, from July 7 through 11, returns to Silvis' TPC at Deere Run after its forced cancellation in 2020, with this professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour an again-annual thrill for golf fans that concludes on the first day of the 2021 British Open.