👏 Good news! The 3rd and Gaines Streets intersection reopens at the end of the day, November 7. This marks the completion of the major 3rd Street Resurfacing and Partial Conversion Project – which included road resurfacing from Telegraph Road to Harrison Street, and the conversion of 3rd Street to two-way travel between Marquette and River Drive. We will continue fine tuning pavement markings and signals in the days to come. Thank you for your patience! | City of Davenport Government

“We are the best kids.” Two Quad Cities non-profits will receive $100,000 from the Davenport City Council after this memorable moment at the December 3rd meeting. Two students spoke up for Project Renewal, an after-school program that has served thousands of kids in its 50-year history. Thank you to Braelynn (4th grade) and Cameron (7th grade) for advocating for your friends and teachers and for participating in your local government! | City of Davenport Government

MISSISSIPPI HOTEL — Davenport, Iowa, 1931. Restoration Time New Neon One of downtown’s last great Art Deco hotels. She opened her doors on November 24th, 1931 with 200 rooms, 50 apartments, and a movie palace attached — the old RKO Orpheum, now the Adler Theatre. She saw the Depression… the riverboats… big-band nights… and the slow fade of the downtown hotel era. By the early ’80s the hotel closed, but the building survived — reborn as the Mississippi Lofts, with the theatre still lighting up th

On April 14, 1967, Iowa news station WMT-TV executed a famous and rare live television moment by transitioning from black-and-white to color broadcasts during a newscast. The station manager flipped a switch that instantly changed the camera feed, providing a striking visual demonstration of the technological shift for local viewers. Credit: Sinclair Broadcast Group | History In Pictures