Restaurant opened in 2004 1. Centro 2. Granite City 3. Crave Best Restaurant Opened in 2004With its distinctive, New York-style pizzas baked in coal-fired ovens and made-from-scratch Italian dishes with meticulously chosen ingredients, it's little wonder that Centro won readers' hearts in 2004.
Community service organization 1. United Way of the Quad Cities Area 2. Gilda's Club Quad Cities 3. American Red Cross of the Quad Cities Area Best Community-Service Organization
Alternative health-care provider 1. Dr. Dennis Hagemann, Hagemann Chiropractic Center 2. Palmer College of Chiropractic & Palmer Chiropractic Clinics 3. Deere Road Chiropractic Ltd. 3.
Local theatre organization 1. Circa '21 Dinner Playhouse 2. Quad-City Music Guild 3. ComedySportz Best Local Theatre Organization
The September introduction by Ford of a hybrid SUV marks the end of the beginning of the long-evolving saga of the hybrid electric vehicle. After more than two decades of public and private initiatives, the hybrid is in the marketplace.

Suing Over Sue

In 1990, Peter Larson paid Maurice Williams $5,000 for some fossilized dinosaur bones that his team had found on Williams' property in South Dakota. It wasn't a speculative buy. "We knew it was really good," Larson said in a phone interview last week.
Re-development of abandoned industrial sites is, by now, old hat. But what might be happening in the coming years in Rock Island is something fresh. What's unusual is that the Quad City Industrial Center isn't abandoned at all.
Leigh Funk loves glass beads. I could tell from her appropriately named Web site (http://www.funky-beads.com), a kind of glass-bead heaven that features photos of Funk's original designs, including sea creatures, food & drink, animals, holiday themes, and whimsical pieces.
Two sports bars in the Quad Cities are catering specifically to non-smokers, giving people the opportunity to eat and drink without the smoke that clogs most taverns. "My friend is a smoker, so it is funny to watch him squirm while we sit and have a drink because he knows he has to wait to have a cigarette," said Jay Keim, a resident of Rock Island and a customer at 3rd & 22.
It's impossible to ignore the industrial history of the apartments in the Crescent Macaroni & Cracker Company and the Waterloo Mills buildings, on the east side of Iowa Street between Fourth and Fifth streets near downtown Davenport.

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