In 1929, Phoebe Omlie set an altitude record above the airport in a Velie Monocoupe, the only plane ever manufactured in Moline, which still hangs in the passenger terminal.

" Moline attracted large waves of immigrants from Sweden, who were believed to be family-minded, God-fearing, community-oriented workers who rarely went on strike.

Many of these founders clearly envisioned a " Lowell on the Mississippi ", after a major industrial city of Massachusetts ; Moline was marketed as a " Lowell of the West " to potential investors and immigrants.

Belgian immigrants came predominantly to work in the fledgling auto industry in Moline, Velie Motors, founded by a Deere relative.

* Interstate 88 ( west ), a highway running west from Chicago, Illinois, USA to Moline, Illinois, USA

According to the Rock Island County Historical Society, the first more permanently settled inhabitants of the Moline area are thought to be the Sauk and Meskwaki Indians, who founded the village of Saukenuk in 1720 along the Rock River not far from its confluence with the Mississippi.

When Charles Atkinson, one of the major landowners in the area, was offered the choice of naming the town Moline (" City of Mills ", from the French moulin, as suggested by a local surveyor P. H.

The same year, John Deere, the inventor of the self-scouring steel plow, relocated his steel plow company from Grand Detour, Illinois, to Moline.

David B. Sears came to Moline from the Northeast by way of Cairo, Illinois, and Atkinson, John W. Spencer, and Spencer H. White, other prominent founding men, were also New Englanders.

With federal funds from the Works Progress Administration, the Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge, a single-span, two-lane highway bridge built for automotive traffic, was concluded between Moline and Davenport in 1935 and quickly became the preferred method for interstate transit.

Chapman, the leader of the town company, who was originally from Moline, Illinois.

LaHood was director of the Rock Island County Youth Services Bureau and then district administrative assistant for U. S. congressman Tom Railsback, a Moline, Illinois Republican, from 1977 to 1982.

Category: People from Moline, Illinois

Category: People from Moline, Illinois

Category: People from Moline, Illinois

Category: People from Moline, Illinois

Louie graduated from Moline High School, Moline, IL, in 1939. His detailed sketch earned him an ' A ' in his high school art class.

It runs from U. S. Route 6 outside of Moline, Illinois to U. S. Route 25 in Mount Vernon, Kentucky.

Category: People from East Moline, Illinois

SBI Route 7 originally ran from East Moline to Chicago, mostly on current U. S. 6 and Illinois 7.

Velie was a brass era American automobile brand produced by the Velie Motors Corporation in Moline, Illinois from 1908 to 1928.

Category: People from Moline, Illinois

Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline joined to form Black Hawk College in 1961, the first junior college created separate from a common school district.

Category: People from Moline, Illinois

A plan suggested by George Peek and Hugh S. Johnson of the Moline Plow Company called for new tariffs to protect farmers from foreign producers and a federal program for price supports.

The quality of life was generally regarded as quite good: " The laboring men of Moline are among the most prosperous to be found in the country.

Even Deere & Company moved most of its factory operations out of Moline, though it maintained its world headquarters in Moline in a specially commissioned building that was designed by Eero Saarinen.

At the time, Minneapolis Moline employed most of the Hopkins residents.

In most cases, these fixed mounts were proprietary and unique to each make of tractor, so an implement produced by John Deere, for example, could not be attached to a Minneapolis Moline tractor.

The Quad Cities also consists of neighboring Bettendorf and the Illinois cities of Moline, East Moline, and Rock Island and has an population estimate of 381, 342.

* Quad Cities of Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, and Rock Island and Moline, Illinois.

It also includes a fifth member, East Moline, Illinois.

Willow's cover art is done by Jo Chen, and Georges Jeanty and Karl Moline produce character artwork and provide alternative covers.

Roche completed 12 major unfinished Saarinen projects, including some of Saarinen's best-known work: the Gateway Arch, the expressionistic TWA Flight Center at JFK International Airport in New York, Dulles International Airport outside Washington, DC, the strictly modern John Deere Headquarters in Moline, Illinois, and the CBS Headquarters building in New York City.

This suggestion is usually shunned by residents of the other cities, for the simple reason that " Quad-Cities " doesn't sound as good ( as well as the fact that West Richland has a much smaller presence compared to the three major cities ) as well as the fact that there is already a Quad Cities on the Mississippi River with Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa, Rock Island and Moline in Illinois.

After 13 games into their inaugural season, the team moved to Moline, Illinois and became the Tri-City Blackhawks.

Small-scale gold mining began at Imarlkba, near Barramundi Creek, and Mundogie Hill in the 1920s and at Moline ( previously called Eureka and Northern Hercules mine ), south of the Park, in the 1930s.

The Coal Valley High School was dissolved in 1952 and used as the junior high, and high school students attended the new high school in Moline.

Galesburg is served by Interstate 74, whose route runs north to Moline, Illinois in the Quad Cities region, and to the southeast to Peoria, Illinois and beyond.

East Moline is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

East Moline is one of the five Quad Cities, along with the cities of Rock Island, Moline, and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf.

East Moline is located at ( 41. 511940, − 90. 435203 ).

Moline ( ) is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States, with a population of 43, 977 in 2010.

Moline is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and the cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa.

The corporate headquarters of Deere & Company is located in Moline, as is the headquarters of Kone in the United States, Quad City International Airport, Niabi Zoo, Black Hawk College, and the Quad Cities campus of Western Illinois University-Quad Cities.

Moline is a retail hub for the Illinois Quad Cities, as Southpark Mall and numerous big-box shopping plazas are located in the city.

Downtown Moline features hotels such as Radisson and Stoney Creek Inn, and commercial areas such as Bass Street Landing and the historic 5th Avenue.

The city of Moline is nestled beside and on a broad bluff situated between the banks of the Mississippi River and Rock River in Rock Island County, Illinois.

The city is bounded to the east by East Moline and to the west by Rock Island.

Moline is located approximately west of Chicago and approximately north-west of Springfield, Illinois.