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)

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

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.

Listening to Paul Rumler and Jim Bohnsack talk about passenger-rail service is not unlike attending a pep rally.