Post Date: 7.11.25 A Rare Flash Flood Emergency was issued earlier for Iowa’s 3rd largest city, Davenport. They’ve had multiple days of downpours, culminating to today where multiple road ways have become hazardous to travel. As you can see some vehicles are nearly completely inundated. When we say Emergency, this is what we mean! Turn around don’t drown! We aren’t expecting any flooding like this but we are in the tropical “rainy” season so to speak! It never hurts to understand the wording of

“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

Go behind the scenes of Historic Buildings of Iowa: Davenport with producer Dan Bolsem. In this BTS interview, Dan shares how the stories, architecture, and history of Davenport came together on screen. Enjoy the full program: https://www.iowapbs.org/shows/historicbuildings/episode/13489/historic-buildings-iowa-davenport | Iowa PBS

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