Rock Island

Red Rock Island is not that kind of island.

The riverfront is lined with new apartment buildings and condominiums, and construction just began on the abandoned Rock Island Bridge, which will become an event space filled with restaurants and bars.

She was a three-time Illinois Ms. Basketball from Rock Island High School, averaging 20 or more points a game her final three seasons.

Marion Smith, a relentless, irascible subterranean explorer who was believed to have visited more caves than anyone else in human history, died on Nov. 30 at his home in Rock Island, Tenn. He was 80.

Army headquarters, located at Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois, military officials said.