Category: Features

by Sara Steuer Dubuque is a city steeped in heritage. Dotted with historic structures from the Shot Tower and Star Brewery to the charming Victorian

by Connie Cherba The 2022 Mississippi River cruise season is underway. Expect to see multi-storied cruise boats docked in the Port of Dubuque and cro

by Chloe Grass Humans love to paint buildings; we’ve been doing it for centuries and have only gotten better at it. We’ve done exterior walls, interi

The Free Summer Musical Program at the Bell Tower Theater in Dubuque’s Fountain Park is celebrating its 15th year in 2022, offering a free theatrical

The Dubuque Arts Council, in partnership with the Dubuque Arboretum & Botanical Gardens, will begin their spectacular, free 2022 summer series on

Sunnycrest Manor, the Dubuque County-owned nursing home, officially opened nearly 101 years ago on August 13, 1921 as a tuberculosis sanatorium – a

by Danielle Phillips The Dubuque Chorale was established in 1971, with its purpose being “to study and perform the great choral masterworks with orc

Jean Marie Cardinal (Unknown-St. Louis, MO, May 1780) was a hunter, trapper, trader, and lead miner on the western bank of the Mississippi River in pr

The 18th President Ulysses S. Grant – the youngest man yet to be elected to that office and the Union General that negotiated the surrender of the Gen

Joseph Bartlett Dorr wasn’t a native Dubuquer, but he is counted among the city’s Civil War heroes. Born in New York on August 5, 1825, Dorr came we