A Different Kind of Wicked: Ballet Quad Cities Celebrates Davenport’s Bucktown with “Wickedest City in America: Dancing, Drinking, & Debauchery,” April 11 and 12

In 1903 (the year jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke was born in Davenport), the Catholic bishop of Davenport Henry Cosgrove called this Iowa city “the wickedest” in America, mainly because of its downtown Bucktown area, teeming with bars, brothels, and theaters.