called the newly created Rails to Trails Conservancy to ask what it would take to turn the old Rock Island Railroad Line Corridor into a trail. Now, nearly 40 years later, the corridor is not just ...

Rock Island-Milan's deputy superintendent has returned to work after being placed on leave in mid-May. According to a letter provided by the district in response to an open records request ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — The Rock Island Fire Department has said goodbye to an old friend. The department sent off Engine 32 in a simulated emergency vehicle accident after nearly 20 years of ...

Antonio Romanucci called the January fatal shooting of Jakarta Jackson by a Rock Island police officer "a self-fulfilling prophecy." The personal injury attorney spoke those words during a press ...

The Rock Island Arsenal will take another stab at leasing the historic Quarters One, along with the golf course and clubhouse on the island. "We're in the process of taking these important ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — Rock Island is moving towards regulating its cannabis dispensaries. On Monday, June 9, the Rock Island City Council approved the first reading of an ordinance that would ...

ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, Ill. (KWQC) - Leisa Streeter worked in the Rock Island County court system for 34 years. Streeter, 62, of New Windsor, is accused of stealing more than $900,000 over 21 years ...

On Labor Day weekend in 1972 a crowd estimated at over 200,000 gathered along the Wabash River in Southern Indiana to attend what would come to be known as the Bull Island Rock Festival.

JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) - The Little Rock Golf Club is being remembered with a historical marker and ceremony this weekend. The non-segregated course came to be in the 1950s when the Country Club of ...

Rock Island Railroad operated it as a toll bridge until 1938, when the Legislature made it free to cross. As local legend goes, the bridge served as an escape route for Depression-era bank robber ...

LONOKE -- The Hot Springs Special of the Rock Island Railroad, passing through this place at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon on its way into Little Rock, struck and instantly killed Henry V.