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A local group called "Bring Back the Bins" is asking people to support the restoration of drop-off recycling in Rock Island County. Monday, the group held a rally outside the county office building in Rock Island.

Scott Kennedy with the center for Strategic and International Studies discusses their recent report, Estimating Chinese Industrial Policy Spending in Comparative Perspective, important research into how China’s targeted investments in its economy far exceed other countries, the consequences, and what the US can do in response.

On Midwest Week, Illinois Republicans will make some important decisions later this month, when they choose candidates for governor and other offices.

With less than two weeks to go before the Illinois primary, state residents are most concerned about crime and parents rights. That's according to Paul Schimpf, one of six Republicans running for governor.

For the first time, Rock Island County has a Finance Director. Ryan Berger began working last week, after serving as the county's ARPA program manager since January.

Bettendorf Mayor Bob Gallagher is encouraging people to call their US senators about the proposed sale of Kansas City Southern to Canadian Pacific Railway.

The Secretary of the Army is confident manufacturing workers at the Rock Island Arsenal will be busy for a long time.

One of the best ways to fight fraud is education, and that's the goal of the Fraud Fighters from the Iowa Insurance Division who will visit the Quad Cities Tuesday.

The road to the recycling bin may be filled with good intentions.

On Midwest Week, a long investigation by NPR and the Marshall Project details abuse of inmates, and seven deaths, at the federal prison in Thomson, Illinois.