DES MOINES, IOWA (August 27, 2026) — Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird announced a landmark $17.1 billion-dollar multistate settlement with Meta Platforms Inc — one of the largest state consumer protection settlements in history.

MONMOUTH, ILLINOIS (August 27, 2026) — This year's matriculation ceremony at Monmouth College was a new experience, in many more ways than one.

For starters, it was held inside the college's air-conditioned Dahl Chapel on a Tuesday morning, rather than outside in front of Wallace Hall on a hot and humid Saturday afternoon.

So many questions

MACOMB, ILLINOIS (August 27, 2026) — The University Union Board at Western Illinois University will host the WestFest 2026 Homecoming Concert Saturday, October 24, in the University Union Grand Ballroom.

Doors will open at 7PM, with the concert beginning at 8PM.

WestFest 2026 will be headlined by rapper Waka Flocka Flame and will feature Chicago rapper BabyChiefDoit.

WEST DES MOINES, IOWA (August 27, 2026) — A new paper published in "Frontiers in Allergy," an international peer-reviewed research journal, explores the significant gap in clinical decision-making regarding which food allergy patients are most likely to benefit from specific allergy treatments and at what level of risk.

DES MOINES, IOWA (August 27, 2026) — The Iowa Restaurant Association (IRA) has announced their 2026 Celebrating Excellence Awards, recognizing individuals and businesses whose leadership, service, and contributions have made a significant impact on Iowa’s hospitality industry. The honorees will be recognized as part of the Association’s 31st Annual Celebrating Excellence Awards Ceremony, Monday, October 19, at Prairie Meadows in Altoona.

EAST MOLINE, ILLINOIS (August 27, 2026) — Please join us for a ribbon-cutting Friday, September 4, 10AM. Located at 1347 Avenue of the Cities, East Moline, Illinois, 61244.

Digital Security Solutions recently relocated their headquarters from Rock Island to a brand-new building at 1347 Avenue of the Cities in East Moline, Illinois.

GALESBURG, ILLINOIS (August 27, 2026) — Knox College is hosting close to sixty Scrabble players in a rated tournament over Labor Day weekend.

LINCOLN, NEBRASKA (August 27, 2026) — Hannah Highberger of Bettendorf, Iowa, a recent graduate of Pleasant Valley High School, is among 41 incoming first-year students selected to join the Nebraska Business Honors Academy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln this fall. Comprising the academy's fourteenth cohort, the students hail from eight US states and sixteen Nebraska communities.

Highberger is majoring in accounting.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (August 27, 2026) — Fall is coming to the farm at Iowa Machine Shed, and families are invited to spend a weekend making memories at the annual Fall Family Festival, Saturday, September 26, and Sunday, September 27, 10AM-3PM.

MOLINE, ILLINOIS (August 27, 2026) — Western Illinois University (WIU) Museum Studies graduate Kelly Lao ('11) has been named the next director of the Muscatine Art Center in Muscatine, Iowa, following a three-month national search.

Lao began her new role on August 3. She succeeds former Muscatine Art Center Director Melanie Alexander, who resigned in April.

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