This award honors an individual who exemplifies hard work and ethics while demonstrating outstanding service to the community through volunteer work, mentoring or social leadership. This person has made a difference through their willingness to work well with others and ability to inspire positive change in Rock Island. 

This person must be a resident of Rock Island. 

Individual - Past Citizen of the Year Winners

The individual/business denoted with ** is the overall Citizen of the Year for that respective year.