Moline, Illinois

Moline is a city located in Rock Island County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 43,768.

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Rock Island County, Illinois - 2000

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Moline is one of the Quad Cities, along with neighboring Rock Island and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bettendorf. The corporate headquarters of Deere & Company and the Quad City International Airport are located in Moline, as well as the Quad Cities campus of Western Illinois University. Moline is a retail hub for the Illinois Quad Cities, as Southpark Mall and numerous big box stores are located in the city. In the mid 1990s, a project known as John Deere Commons led to the revitalization of Moline's central business district.

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Quad Cities - Rock Island - Iowa - Davenport - Bettendorf - Deere & Company - Quad City International Airport - Western Illinois University - Big box store

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The name Moline comes from the French Moulin meaning Mill Town.

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Due to its historical connections to inventor and industrialist John Deere--who relocated to Moline in 1848 to mass produce his steel plow there--and the company he founded, Moline is known as the "farm implement capital of the world." Because of its location on the Mississippi River and the economies of scale for large-scale farm implement production that quickly developed around Deere & Company, Moline was a major center for the industry from the late nineteenth century through the 1980s.

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