Establishing Rock Island as a port district could be a game-changer for a city the governor’s office describes as “economically distressed.” When some people think of ports, they imagine ...

A port district designation for Rock Island, Streight said, would allow for more infrastructure improvements at and around the terminal. On the list are terminal upgrades, expansion of rail ...

The Rock Island Trail now under construction intends to join up with the Katy Trail (shown). In 1986 a resident of Eldon, Missouri, called the newly created Rails to Trails Conservancy to ask what it ...

Central to that recalibration was a harmony lead-guitar line unlike anything previously heard in the Beatles’ catalog — or rock and roll.

“But for me, ‘Rock Island Line’ was one of the first things I’ve learned. Also is one of the things that you can actually learn one chord, get your fingers on that guitar in one position and not move ...

Metra’s board of directors gave their approval Wednesday to a nearly $9 million plan to completely renovate the 115th Street-Morgan Park station on the the Rock Island Line.

Metra’s board of directors gave their approval Wednesday to a nearly $9 million plan to completely renovate the 115th Street-Morgan Park station on the the Rock Island Line. (https://wgntv.com ...

A 4-year-old girl who was missing for hours on Thursday has been found and was reunited with her mother.

The Rock Island County Coroner Brian Gustafson has released the identity and cause of death for a man shot by police on Sunday who later died.

The PDP Riffmaster is a new guitar controller that works on modern consoles and has some really useful quality of life features.

Progressive rock legends Genesis certainly knew about pushing musical boundaries. As one of the pioneers of British prog, Genesis provided every guitarist who played their music with a real lesson in ...

Metra is planning to convert as many as six of its diesel locomotives on the Rock Island Line to battery power.