An eagerly awaited pre-summer event complete with food, vendors, local history, games, and entertainment for the entire family, the 2025 Quad City Juneteenth Festival will be held at Davenport's LeClaire Park on June 14, the celebration hosted by the Friends of MLK (FoMLK) and held in commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States.

A tradition of 40-plus years that has attracted more than 25,000 people each summer to downtown Iowa City, the Iowa Arts Festival and Fine Art Fair, from June 6 through 8, will showcase a wide array of visual artists from local and national levels. The weekend-long event will also feature a beverage garden, a variety of culinary delights, children’s activities, and thrilling live-music performances, including a Friday-night set with headliners The Original Pinettes Brass Band and Saturday's headliners Southern Avenue.

Those who love dinosaurs and all things Mesozoic will be in Putnam Museum & Science Center paradise when the venue welcomes families to the May 31 and June 1 celebration Dino Days – a family-friendly, specialty-ticketed weekend event boasting crafts, activities, a fossil dig, and screenings of a Jurassic “animated short” double feature.

Presented by the Quad Cities Bicycle Club and returning to the Village of East Davenport, an eagerly anticipated Memorial Day tradition returns for its 58th year in the Quad Cities Criterium – a May 26 event featuring hundreds of adult and youth cyclists from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe participating in a dozen bicycle races, with thousands of dollars in cash prizes awarded throughout the day.