who guarded Confederate prisoners at the Rock Island prison during the Civil War, to the big screen. Filmmaker Joy Shannon, 67, described the story of the Union soldiers, many who were former ...

The ACLU warned "we’re getting very close to" a "constitutional crisis" after Trump carried out deportations despite a ...

The decision to move his gallery into his home led him to buy a pre-Civil War Creole shotgun a few blocks ... when he worked with such influential rock and punk icons as The Clash, Ramones ...

In 1945, 7,000 Allied planes dropped more than 12,000 tons of explosives on Germany during a single World War ... prison on San Francisco Bay's Alcatraz Island was closed. In 1965, more than 300 ...

The United States is a relatively young country, but there are plenty of historical places in America where you can lear ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The last inmates of Alcatraz Federal Prison left the crumbling "Rock" in San Francisco Bay ... The last inmate to leave the 29-year-old island prison was Frank C.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - Ashley Harris won the race for Rock Island mayor, according to unofficial results. Harris leads with all precincts reporting with 2,811 votes, about 51% of the vote ...

March 29 marks the anniversary of the last American troops leaving Vietnam, and many veterans waited years to be truly welcomed home after serving their country. Our Quad Cities News reporter ...

New York City is allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to return to its Rikers Island prison following recent ... ICE permission to carry out civil immigration enforcement and arrest ...