Welfare offices in Rock Island and Kewanee saw food stamp costs drop by an average of 10.24 percent from January 2015 to January 2017, according to a Rock Island Today analysis of 66 Illinois welfare offices.
The Quad Cities Chamber is offering area businesses an opportunity to reach the over 100,000 visitors to the chamber's website each year as a tool to recruit job candidates.
Government pension funds in Silvis, Colona and Geneseo depended least on taxpayer contributions to make ends meet in 2016, according to the Illinois Department of Insurance.