With the theatre's latest production, Mt. Carroll's Timber Lake Playhouse will be treating audiences to a world premiere, a family dilemma, and an umlaut with the venue's debut of Glü, a brand-new musical comedy running August 22 through 31, and presented as the first presentation in the venue's Andy Bro New Works Program.

A popular summertime weekend event making a welcome return in 2025, the Quad City Air Show roars back above and throughout the Davenport Municipal Airport on August 23 and 24, this exhilarating aerial celebration featuring airborne performances, aerobatic teams, helicopters, squadrons, information booths, vendors, musical entertainment, and much more.

Providing a tour of some of the original sites for the Industrial Revolution in the early days of America, as well as a history of why we celebrate the holiday, the video and lecture program The History of Labor Day will be presented at the Rock Island Public Library's Downtown Branch on August 25, with host Dave Stotts of Drive Thru History delivering an engaging and informative look at our collective U.S. past.

Her 2025 release Forever, in a four-star review, lauded by Slate as a work that "adds to her repertoire in its unrelenting barrage of brawling guitars, punkish attitude, and hopped-up melodicism," Nashville-based country rocker Lilly Hiatt headlines her first Raccoon Motel engagement on August 27, PopMatters adding that the artist' latest "celebrates the experiences couples have, the memories they create, and the struggles they overcome together."