COAL VALLEY, ILLINOIS (September 10, 2025) — We want to show our appreciation to our local heroes, including police officers, firefighters, health-care workers, paramedics, as well as active and veteran military personnel by offering FREE Zoo admission with an ID showing your employment or status. Help us show our thanks to them for serving your communities, neighbors, family, and friends throughout the Quad Cities and our country.

DAVENPORT, IOWA (September 5, 2025) — There’s still time to register for the Tour of the Heartland, an annual bicycle ride sponsored by the Quad Cities Bicycle Club that gives participants a chance to “Choose Your Challenge.”

COAL VALLEY, ILLINOIS (July 13, 2025) — Niabi Zoo is excited to welcome back its Amur leopards, snow leopards, and African leopard following extensive renovations to their habitat. After sustaining significant structural damage during the severe January 2024 winter snowstorms, the big cat house has been rebuilt to better meet the animals’ needs and support the zoo’s long-term care and conservation goals.

COAL VALLEY, ILLINOIS (June 20, 2025) — Niabi Zoo is offering refuge to a growing number of animals in need, working alongside federal, state, and local agencies to rehome animals confiscated at US borders, removed from illegal or abusive private ownership, or displaced by facility closures.