Thursday, September 7, 11:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Presented by River Action, 822 East River Drive, Davenport IA

For the 18th consecutive year, River Action will host area tours for senior citizens that utilize existing riverfront trails, allowing participants to see and learn about beautiful area locales and landmarks from the front seat of covered golf carts.

The Mississippi Valley Blues Society presents a special concert headlined by a two-time winner of the Blues Music Awards' “Best Instrumentalist – Bass” citation, as well as a Chicago-blues artist whom Downbeat magazine described as “a real crowd-pleaser.”

The creator of Aerobics with Soul, a popular workout routine based on the tenets of African dance, author Maria Nhambu will share tales of her extraordinary life in a special Davenport library event, along with readings from her memoirs Africa's Child and the newly released America's Daughter.

Founded in 2015 by the Quad Cities Cybersecurity Alliance, the third-annual CornCon – an event designed to raise community awareness and provide business solutions for dealing with cybersecurity threats – will feature a September 8 workshop for business leaders and IT professionals, and a September 9 general conference boasting guest speakers, hands-on workshops, contests, and a vendor expo.

Returning to the organization after 10 years of leadership under David Bowlin, Chamber Music Quad Cities founders, brothers, and Davenport natives Thomas and Gregory Sauer will perform alongside Bowlin in the fall concert for the ensemble's 24th season.

On the night of August 25, this one spoken line stuck in my head like newly poured concrete – clammy and heavy while slowly thickening in my mind. I can only imagine that most of us have been stuck at some point, but this didn't refer to the everyday kind of stuck. It wasn't about something normal such as being trapped in traffic, or having writer's block, or doing the same workout over and over. No, this question asked in a play referred to an endless hamster wheel of shame and humiliation stigmatized by one poor life choice.

Using non-farm jobs data from the Illinois Department of Employment Security, over 120,000 net jobs have been added in Illinois since February of 2015, the first full month of Rauner's term in office.

But most of those jobs were gained in 2015, when 83,400 jobs were added

Headlining an evening of World Wrestling Entertainment matches, Randy Orton and Jinder Mahal will compete in a Last Man Standing Match for the WWE Championship, having previously faced off in a May 2017 bout won by Mahal.

Governor Bruce Rauner has said for the past several days that he’s open to just about any sort of compromise in order to get school funding reform signed into law.