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."

Winners of the Quad-City Times' 2017 Reader's Choice Award for “Best Local Band” and one of the most successful music acts to emerge from the area in recent years, the AC/DC tribute artists of Electric Shock headline an August 23 event in the 2025 Summer Concert Series at Bettendorf venue The Tangled Wood, the night boasting hits from a classic-rock repertoire that includes Billboard chart-toppers Black Ice, Power Up, Ballbreaker, and 1980's seminal Back in Black.

With the colorful and arresting exhibit on display through August 31, a closing celebration and artist talk on the footwear-themed exhibit Future Now: Virtual Sneakers to Cutting-Edge Kicks will be held at Davenport's Figge Art Museum on August 28, the evening featuring a captivating talk by award-winning virtual shoe designer Antonio Arocho Hernández, whose works are featured in the exhibit.