13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Shopping

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Best Locally Owned Store with Things You Can't Find at Chains

1. Isabel Bloom

2. Watermark Corners

3. K&K True Value Hardware

 

Best Place to Buy Local Art

1. Bucktown Center for the Arts

2. Quad City Arts

3. Isabel Bloom

 

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Eats

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Best Restaurant Opened in 2007

1. Noodles & Company

2. Sonic Drive-In

3. Café Indigo

 

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Day with the Family

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Best Kid-Friendly Restaurant

1. Happy Joe's

2. Chuck E. Cheese

3. McDonald's

 

Best Place for a Picnic

1. Vander Veer Park

2. Scott County Park

3. Ben Butterworth Parkway

3. Black Hawk State Historic Site

 

Best Entertainment Venue for Kids

1. Family Museum

2. Putnam Museum
& IMAX Theatre

3. Chuck E. Cheese

 

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Hangover Day

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Best Eggs

1. Village Inn

2. IHOP

3. Ross' Restaurant

 

Best Place to Rent DVDs

1. Family Video

2. Blockbuster

3. Hollywood Video

 

Strongest Coffee

1. Starbucks

2. Panera Bread

3. Theo's Java Club

 

Best Brunch

1. Thunder Bay Grille

2. The Lodge

3. Granite City Food & Brewery

 

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Free Stuff

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Best Place to Hike

1. Black Hawk State Historic Site

2. Scott County Park

3. Wildcat Den State Park

 

Best Bike Path

1. Ben Butterworth Parkway

2. Duck Creek bike path

3. Davenport bike paths

 

Most Bike-Friendly City

1. Moline

2. Davenport

3. Bettendorf

 

Best Place to Canoe

1. Rock River

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Information

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Best Local Library

1. Moline Public Library

2. Bettendorf Public Library

3. Davenport Public Library

 

Best Local Newscast

1. KWQC TV6

2. WQAD TV8

3. WHBF TV4

 

Most Reliable Weather Forecast

1. WQAD TV8

2. KWQC TV6

3. The Weather Channel

 

Best Local Media Personality

1. Danielle Howe (WLLR FM103.7)

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Imaginary Local Festival

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Imaginary Festival!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Local Country Artist

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Build a Better Quad Cities

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Retail Store You'd Like to See in the Quad Cities

1. Macy's

2. IKEA

3. Circuit City

 

Restaurant You'd Like to See in the Quad Cities

1. Cheesecake Factory

2. Joe's Crab Shack

3. P.F. Chang's

 

Underrepresented Cuisine

1. Fresh seafood

2. Authentic Italian

3. Indian

 

Local Business You'd Like to See Re-Open

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Things That Aren't Really Good

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Best TV Hair

1. Paula Sands (KWQC TV6)

2. Jessica Tighe (KWQC TV6)

3. Sharon DeRycke (KWQC TV6)

 

Best Overblown Local News Story

1. Weather

2. Casinos moving

3. Elections

 

Best Complaint About the Quad Cities

1. Nothing to do

2. Road conditions

3. Traffic

 

Most Dangerous Intersection

13 Feb 2008

Best of the Quad Cities: Best Kept Secrets

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Best Restaurant - Cup A Jo

 

Michael Huggins knows about well-kept secrets. He said a magazine named the chicken salad at his coffee shop/restaurant at 1603 Fifth Avenue in Moline the best in the country. He just doesn't know the name of the magazine, and "I don't have the magazine to prove it," he said.

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