Quad Cities, the Glossary

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1. 427 relations: Abraham Lincoln, Acie Earl, AF2, African Americans in Davenport, Iowa, Alcoa, Aledo, Illinois, Ambrose Burke, American Civil War, American Hockey League, American Pickers, Amtrak, Andalusia, Illinois, Andover, Illinois, Annawan, Illinois, Arconic, Area code 563, Area codes 309 and 861, Arena football, ArenaCup, Argo, Iowa, Atkinson, Illinois, Atlanta Hawks, Augustana College (Illinois), Austin Howard, Ballet Quad Cities, Barack Obama, Barstow, Illinois, Baseball, Basketball Association of America, Bettendorf Transit, Bettendorf, Iowa, Bible Missionary Church, Big Rock, Iowa, Bill Fitch, Bix Beiderbecke, Black church, Black Hawk (Sauk leader), Black Hawk College, Black Hawk State Historic Site, Black Hawk War, Blue Grass, Iowa, Bluebox Films, Bonnie Bartlett, Browning Field, Buffalo Bill, Buffalo Prairie, Illinois, Buffalo, Iowa, Burlington Trailways, Cambridge, Illinois, Campbell's Island, Illinois, ... Expand index (377 more) »

2. Metropolitan areas of Illinois
3. Metropolitan areas of Iowa

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.

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Acie Earl

Acie Boyd Earl (born June 23, 1970) is an American former professional basketball player, who appeared in four National Basketball Association (NBA) seasons, as a, center.

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AF2

The AF2 (often styled as af2, and short for arenafootball2) was the Arena Football League's developmental league; it was founded in 1999 and played its first season in 2000.

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African Americans in Davenport, Iowa

African Americans in Davenport, Iowa comprise the third-largest black community in Iowa, with a history that precedes the Civil War.

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Alcoa

Alcoa Corporation (an acronym for "Aluminum Company of America") is a Pittsburgh-based industrial corporation.

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Aledo, Illinois

Aledo is a city in Mercer County, Illinois, United States.

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Ambrose Burke

Monsignor Ambrose J. Burke (November 27, 1895 – October 6, 1998) was an English professor and Catholic priest who served as the eighth president of Saint Ambrose University (then Saint Ambrose College) from 1940 through 1956.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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American Hockey League

The American Hockey League (AHL) is a professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental league for the National Hockey League (NHL).

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American Pickers

American Pickers (or also known as The Pickers for international) is an American reality television series that premiered on January 18, 2010, on the History Channel, produced by A&E Networks in collaboration with Cineflix Media.

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Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is the national passenger railroad company of the United States.

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Andalusia, Illinois

Andalusia is a village in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Andover, Illinois

Andover is a village in Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Annawan, Illinois

Annawan is an incorporated town in Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Arconic

Arconic Corporation is an American industrial company specializing in lightweight metals engineering and manufacturing.

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Area code 563

Area code 563 is a telephone area code for the east central and northeast corner of the state of Iowa, and includes most of the Iowa side of the Quad Cities.

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Area codes 309 and 861

Area codes 309 and 861 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the west-central part of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Arena football is a variety of gridiron football designed to be played indoors.

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ArenaCup

The ArenaCup was the af2's championship game.

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Argo, Iowa

Argo is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Atkinson, Illinois

Atkinson is an incorporated town in Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Atlanta Hawks

The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta.

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Augustana College (Illinois)

Augustana College is a private Lutheran college in Rock Island, Illinois.

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Austin Howard

Austin Howard (born March 22, 1987) is a former American football offensive tackle.

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Ballet Quad Cities

Ballet Quad Cities is a ballet company located in Rock Island, Illinois.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.

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Barstow, Illinois

Barstow is an unincorporated community in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.

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Basketball Association of America

The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was a professional basketball league in North America, founded in 1946.

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Bettendorf Transit

Bettendorf Transit is the operator of public transportation in Scott County, Iowa.

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Bettendorf, Iowa

Bettendorf is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Bible Missionary Church

The Bible Missionary Church, founded in 1955, is a Methodist denomination of Christianity aligned with the conservative holiness movement.

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Big Rock, Iowa

Big Rock is an unincorporated community in Scott and Clinton counties, Iowa, United States.

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Bill Fitch

William Charles Fitch (May 19, 1932 – February 2, 2022) was an American professional basketball coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Bix Beiderbecke

Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer.

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Black church

The black church (sometimes termed Black Christianity or African American Christianity) is the faith and body of Christian denominations and congregations in the United States that predominantly minister to, and are also led by African Americans, as well as these churches' collective traditions and members.

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Black Hawk (Sauk leader)

Black Hawk, born Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak (Sauk: Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa) (c. 1767 – October 3, 1838), was a Sauk leader and warrior who lived in what is now the Midwestern United States.

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Black Hawk College

Black Hawk College is a public community college in Illinois with campuses in Moline and Galva.

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Black Hawk State Historic Site

The Black Hawk State Historic Site, in Rock Island, Illinois, is adjacent to the historic site of the village of Saukenuk, the home of a band of Native Americans of the Sauk nation.

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Black Hawk War

The Black Hawk War was a conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader.

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Blue Grass, Iowa

Blue Grass is a city in Muscatine and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Bluebox Films

Bluebox Limited Films is a production company and film distributor founded by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.

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Bonnie Bartlett

Bonnie Bartlett Daniels (born June 20, 1929) is a retired American actress.

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Browning Field

Browning Park is a park in Moline, Illinois, United States, located at 16th Street and 23rd Avenue.

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Buffalo Bill

William Frederick Cody (February 26, 1846January 10, 1917), known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, bison hunter, and showman.

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Buffalo Prairie, Illinois

Buffalo Prairie is a Census-designated place in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Buffalo, Iowa

Buffalo is a town in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Burlington Trailways

Burlington Trailways is an intercity bus company based in West Burlington, Iowa.

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Cambridge, Illinois

Cambridge is a village and the county seat of Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Campbell's Island, Illinois

Campbell's Island is an island and unincorporated community in the Mississippi River.

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Carbon Cliff, Illinois

Carbon Cliff is a village in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Carl Meinberg

Carl H. Meinberg (January 11, 1889 – April 15, 1975) was a 20th-century Catholic priest in the United States who served as the seventh president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa, from 1937 to 1940.

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Case IH

Case IH is an American agricultural machinery manufacturer.

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Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar Inc., also known as Cat, is an American construction, mining and other engineering equipment manufacturer.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America and some Caribbean islands.

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Champions Indoor Football (CIF) was a professional indoor American football minor league created in 2014 out of the merger between the Champions Professional Indoor Football League (CPIFL) and Lone Star Football League (LSFL), plus one team from the Indoor Football League and two expansion teams.

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Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Freight House

The Chicago, Milwaukee, St.

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Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad

The original Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (CRI&P RW, sometimes called Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway) was an American Class I railroad.

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Chicago–Kansas City Expressway

The Chicago–Kansas City Expressway is a highway that runs between Chicago, Illinois, and Kansas City, Missouri.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Chuck Grassley

Charles Ernest Grassley (born September 17, 1933) is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Iowa, having held the seat since 1981.

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Cletus Madsen

Cletus Madsen (December 1, 1905 – July 16, 2002) was a 20th-century Catholic priest of the Diocese of Davenport in the US state of Iowa.

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Cleveland, Illinois

Cleveland is a village in Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Clinton County, Iowa

Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Coal Valley, Illinois

The village of Coal Valley is located in both Rock Island County and Henry County in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Cobham (company)

Cobham Limited is a British aerospace manufacturing company based in Bournemouth, England.

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College basketball

College basketball is basketball that is played by teams of amateur student-athletes at universities and colleges.

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Colona, Illinois

Colona is a city in Henry County, Illinois, along the Green River.

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Combined statistical area

Combined statistical area (CSA) is a United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) term for a combination of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (μSA) across the 50 U.S. states and the territory of Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage.

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ComedySportz

ComedySportz (CSz) is an improvisational comedy organization started in 1984 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by a group of local comedians including Dick Chudnow, Bob Orvis, Brian Green, and others.

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Comma-separated values

Comma-separated values (CSV) is a text file format that uses commas to separate values, and newlines to separate records.

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Confluence

In geography, a confluence (also: conflux) occurs where two or more watercourses join to form a single channel.

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Continental Basketball Association

The Continental Basketball Association (CBA), originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League, and later as the Eastern Professional Basketball League and the Eastern Basketball Association, was a men's professional basketball minor league in the United States from 1946 to 2009.

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Cordova, Illinois

Cordova is a village in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Coyne Center, Illinois

Coyne Center is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Crescent Rail Bridge

The Crescent Bridge carries a rail line across the Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, Illinois.

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Dana Davis

Dana Davis is an American actress and novelist known for playing Monica Dawson on the NBC series Heroes (2007), Chastity Church on the ABC Family television series 10 Things I Hate About You (2009–10) and Carmen Phillips on the TNT series Franklin & Bash (2011–2013).

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Daniel David Palmer

Daniel David Palmer (March 7, 1845 – October 20, 1913) was the founder of chiropractic.

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Danielle Colby

Danielle Colby (born December 3, 1975) is an American reality television personality who appears on the History reality television show American Pickers.

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Davenport Citibus

Davenport CitiBus is the transit agency serving Davenport, Iowa, United States.

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Davenport Municipal Airport (Iowa)

Davenport Municipal Airport is a general aviation airport located about north of downtown Davenport, a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Davenport RiverCenter

RiverCenter is a convention center located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States.

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Davenport Skybridge

The Davenport Skybridge is a pedestrian cable-stayed bridge that spans River Drive (Highway 67) in downtown Davenport, Iowa.

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Davenport, Iowa

Davenport is a city in and the county seat of Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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David Chipperfield

Sir David Alan Chipperfield,, (born 18 December 1953) is a British architect.

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Dayton, Henry County, Illinois

Dayton is an unincorporated community in Colona Township, Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Dean Stone

Darrah Dean Stone (September 1, 1930 – August 21, 2018) was an American professional baseball player, a pitcher who appeared in 166 games over all or parts of eight Major League Baseball seasons.

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Dick Durbin

Richard Joseph Durbin (born November 21, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Illinois, a seat he has held since 1997.

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Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav.

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Dixon, Iowa

Dixon is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Don Nelson

Donald Arvid Nelson (born May 15, 1940) is an American former professional basketball player and head coach.

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Donahue, Iowa

Donahue is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Doris Davenport

Doris Davenport, also known as Doris Jordan (January 1, 1917 – June 18, 1980) was an American actress in movies of the 1930s and early 1940s.

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Douglas Park

Douglas Park was a football stadium in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, the home ground of Hamilton Academical from 1888 to 1994.

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Douglas Park (Rock Island)

Douglas Park is a public park located at 18th Avenue and 10th Street in Rock Island, Illinois.

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Drake Hotel (Chicago)

The Drake, a Hilton Hotel, 140 East Walton Place, Chicago, Illinois, is a luxury, full-service hotel, located downtown on the lake side of Michigan Avenue two blocks north of the John Hancock Center and a block south of Oak Street Beach at the top of the Magnificent Mile.

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Dutch Americans

Dutch Americans (Nederlandse Amerikanen) are Americans of Dutch and Flemish descent whose ancestors came from the Low Countries in the distant past, or from the Netherlands as from 1830 when the Flemish became independent from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands by creating the Kingdom of Belgium.

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Dwight Deere Wiman

Dwight Deere Wiman (August 8, 1895 – January 20, 1951) was an American silent movie actor, playwright and theatrical director.

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East Moline, Illinois

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

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The Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) includes three community colleges stretched along the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Ed Conroy (basketball)

Edward S. Conroy (born February 17, 1967) is an American college basketball coach who is currently serving his second stint as the head coach of The Citadel Bulldogs.

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Ed Reimers

Edwin W. Reimers (October 26, 1912 – August 16, 2009) was an American actor active during the 1950s and 1960s, who also served as the stentorian-voiced announcer for such early Warner Brothers television series as Cheyenne and Maverick: "From the entertainment capital of the world, produced for television by Warner Brothers." Then he would recite the title and cast: "Maverick! Starring Jack Kelly and Roger Moore!".

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Eddie Albert

Edward Albert Heimberger (April 22, 1906 – May 26, 2005) was an American actor.

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Edgington, Illinois

Edgington is an unincorporated community in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Eero Saarinen

Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910 – September 1, 1961) was a Finnish-American architect and industrial designer who created a wide array of innovative designs for buildings and monuments, including the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan; the passenger terminal at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.; the TWA Flight Center (now TWA Hotel) at John F.

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Eldridge, Iowa

Eldridge is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Elmer Layden

Elmer Francis Layden (May 4, 1903 – June 30, 1973) was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and professional sports executive.

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English Americans

English Americans (historically known as Anglo-Americans) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in England.

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Eric Christian Olsen

Eric Christian Olsen (born May 31, 1977) is an American actor.

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Ethan Happ

Ethan Happ (born May 7, 1996) is an American-born naturalized Macedonian professional basketball player for Valencia of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroCup.

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Eugene Burton Ely

Eugene Burton Ely (October 21, 1886 – October 19, 1911) was an American aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft takeoff and landing.

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Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.

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Figge Art Museum

The Figge Art Museum is located on the north bank of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa.

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Fred Schwengel Memorial Bridge

The Fred Schwengel Memorial Bridge is a 4-lane steel girder bridge that carries Interstate 80 across the Mississippi River between LeClaire, Iowa and Rapids City, Illinois.

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Frederick Denkmann

Frederick Denkmann (April 8, 1821 – March 2, 1905) was an American lumber baron based in Rock Island, Illinois.

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Friedrich Weyerhäuser

Friedrich (Frederick) Weyerhäuser (November 21, 1834 – April 4, 1914), also spelled Weyerhaeuser, was a German-American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which owns sawmills, paper factories, and other business enterprises as well as large areas of forested land in the northern United States.

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Frontline (American TV program)

Frontline (stylized in all capital letters) is an investigative documentary program distributed by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States.

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Gail Karp

Gail Ilene Posner Karp (born in the mid 1950s in Detroit, Michigan) served as the cantor of the Reform Jewish synagogue Temple Emanuel in Davenport, Iowa from 1987 - 2016.

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Galesburg, Illinois

Galesburg is a city in Knox County, Illinois, United States.

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Gene Oliver

Eugene George Oliver (March 22, 1935 – March 3, 2007) was an American professional baseball player who appeared 786 games in Major League Baseball, as a catcher, first baseman, outfielder and pinch hitter, from 1959 to 1969.

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Geneseo, Illinois

Geneseo is a city in Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Genesis Health System

Genesis Health System is a non-profit health system based in Davenport, Iowa.

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George Cram Cook

George Cram Cook or Jig Cook (October 7, 1873 – January 14, 1924) was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, novelist, poet, and university professor.

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George Davenport

Colonel George Davenport, born George William King (1783 – July 4, 1845), was a 19th-century English-American sailor, frontiersman, fur trader, merchant, postmaster, US Army soldier, Indian agent, and city planner.

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Gerald Francis O'Keefe

Gerald Francis O'Keefe (March 30, 1918 – April 12, 2000) was a 20th-century bishop of the Catholic Church in the United States.

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German Americans

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.

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Government Bridge

The Government Bridge or Arsenal Bridge spans the Mississippi River, connecting Rock Island, Illinois and Davenport, Iowa.

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Grant Wood

Grant DeVolson Wood (February 13, 1891February 12, 1942) was an American artist and representative of Regionalism, best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest.

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Great Lakes megalopolis

The Great Lakes megalopolis consists of a bi-national group of metropolitan areas in North America largely in the Great Lakes region.

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Greater St. Louis

Greater St. Quad Cities and Greater St. Louis are metropolitan areas of Illinois.

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Greyhound Lines

Greyhound Lines, Inc. (Greyhound) is a company that operates the largest intercity bus service in North America.

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Group O

Group O, headquartered in Milan, Illinois, is one of the largest Hispanic-owned companies in the U.S. and a provider of managed products and services.

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Guardian Industries

Guardian Industries is a privately held industrial manufacturer of glass, automotive and building products based in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

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Hampton, Illinois

Hampton is a village in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Happy Joe's

Happy Joe's is an American pizza parlor chain based in Bettendorf, Iowa.

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Hazel Keener

Hazel O. Keener (October 22, 1904 – August 7, 1979) was a motion picture actress from Fairbury, Illinois.

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Helen Mack

Helen Mack (born Helen McDougall; November 13, 1913 – August 13, 1986) was an American actress.

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Henry Cantwell Wallace

Henry Cantwell Wallace (May 11, 1866 – October 25, 1924) was an American farmer, journalist, and political activist who served as the secretary of agriculture from 1921 to 1924 under Republican presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge.

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Henry County, Illinois

Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Hillsdale, Illinois

Hillsdale is a village in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Hiram Price

Hiram Price (January 10, 1814 – May 30, 1901) was a nineteenth-century banker, merchant, bookkeeper, bank president, railroad president, and five-term Republican congressman from Iowa's 2nd congressional district and as commissioner of Indian Affairs.

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History Channel

History (stylized in all caps), formerly and commonly known as the History Channel, is an American pay television network and flagship channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company's General Entertainment Content Division.

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Hy-Vee

Hy-Vee, Inc. is an employee-owned chain of supermarkets in the Midwestern and Southern United States, with more than 280 locations in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, with stores planned in Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama.

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Hynden Walch

Hynden Walch (born February 1, 1971) is an American actress known for voicing Starfire in the Teen Titans franchise and Princess Bubblegum in Adventure Time.

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I-74 Bridge

The Interstate 74 Bridge, officially known as the Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge, and often called The Twin Bridges, or the I-74 Bridge, are basket-handle, through arch twin bridges that carry Interstate 74 across the Mississippi River and connect Bettendorf, Iowa, and Moline, Illinois.

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Ice bridge

An ice bridge is a frozen natural structure formed over seas, bays, rivers or lake surfaces.

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Ice hockey

Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois City, Illinois

Illinois City is an unincorporated community in the U.S. state of Illinois, across the Mississippi River from Muscatine, Iowa.

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Illinois Route 192

Illinois Route 192 is a east–west state highway in northwest Illinois.

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Illinois Route 5

Illinois Route 5 (IL 5) is a four to six lane state highway in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States, that runs from U.S. Route 67 (US 67) in Rock Island to the interchange of Interstate 80 (I-80) and the toll-free portion of I-88, a distance of.

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Illinois Route 84

Illinois Route 84 (Route 84 or IL 84) is a long state highway that runs along the Mississippi River in northwestern Illinois.

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Illinois Route 92

Illinois Route 92 (IL 92 or Route 92) is an east–west state highway in northwest Illinois.

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Illinois Route 94

Illinois Route 94 is a north–south state highway in western Illinois.

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Improvisational theatre

Improvisational theatre, often called improvisation or improv, is the form of theatre, often comedy, in which most or all of what is performed is unplanned or unscripted, created spontaneously by the performers.

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Indigenous peoples

There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.

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The Indoor Football League (IFL) is a professional indoor American football league created in 2008 out of the merger between the Intense Football League and United Indoor Football.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.

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International Fight League

The International Fight League was an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion billed as the world's first MMA league.

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International Harvester

The International Harvester Company (often abbreviated IH or International) was an American manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment, automobiles, commercial trucks, lawn and garden products, household equipment, and more.

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Interpretation centre

An interpretation centre, interpretive centre, or visitor interpretive centre is an institution for dissemination of knowledge of natural or cultural heritage.

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Interstate 280 (Iowa–Illinois)

Interstate 280 (I-280) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway that makes up the western and southern portions of the beltway around the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa.

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Interstate 74

Interstate 74 (I-74) is an Interstate Highway in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States.

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Interstate 80

Interstate 80 (I-80) is an east–west transcontinental freeway that crosses the United States from San Francisco, California, to Teaneck, New Jersey, in the New York metropolitan area.

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Interstate 88 (Illinois)

Interstate 88 (I-88) is an Interstate Highway in the US state of Illinois that runs from an interchange with I-80 near Silvis and Moline to an interchange with I-290 and I-294 in Hillside, near Chicago.

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Iowa

Iowa is a doubly landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States.

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Iowa 80

Iowa 80 is the world's largest truck stop, located along Interstate 80 off exit 284 in Walcott, Iowa.

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Iowa Highway 130

Iowa Highway 130 (Iowa 130) is a state highway that traverses northwestern Scott County and eastern Cedar County in eastern Iowa.

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Iowa Highway 22

Iowa Highway 22 (Iowa 22) is a west–east state highway that traverses primarily rural areas in east-central Iowa.

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Irish Americans

Irish Americans (Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are ethnic Irish who live in the United States and are American citizens.

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Isabel Bloom

Isabel Bloom (February 20, 1908 – May 1, 2001) was an Iowa artist best known for her concrete sculptures of animals and children.

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Jack Fleck

Jackson Donald Fleck (November 7, 1921 – March 21, 2014) was an American professional golfer, best known for winning the U.S. Open in 1955 in a playoff over Ben Hogan.

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James A. Skinner

James Alan Skinner (born 1944) is an American business executive.

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James Jones (defensive lineman)

James Alfie Jones (born February 6, 1969) is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL).

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James Philbrook

James Philbrook was an American actor who appeared in several major films, including I Want to Live! (1958), Woman Obsessed and as Colonel Tall in the 1964 war picture The Thin Red Line.

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Jens Pulver

Jens Johnnie Pulver (born December 6, 1974) is an American retired professional mixed martial artist and undefeated boxer and kickboxer.

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Jeremy Horn

Jeremy Graham Horn (born August 25, 1975) is an American mixed martial artist.

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Jesse Johnson (musician)

Jesse Woods Johnson (born June 1, 1960) is an American funk musician best known as the guitarist in the original 1981 lineup of The Time (known since 2011 as Original 7ven).

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Jim Jensen (running back)

James Douglas Jensen (born November 28, 1953) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, and Green Bay Packers.

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Jim Leach

James Albert Smith Leach (born October 15, 1942) is an American academic and former politician.

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Jim Thorpe

James Francis Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path"; May 22 or 28,Sources vary. See, for example, Flatter, Ron., ESPN. Retrieved December 9, 2016, and Golus, Carrie (2012)., Twenty-First Century Books. p. 4.. 1887March 28, 1953) was an American athlete and Olympic gold medalist.

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Joe Frisco

Joe Frisco (born Louis Wilson Joseph; November 4, 1889 – February 18, 1958) was an American vaudeville performer who first made his name on stage as a jazz dancer, but later incorporated his stuttering voice to his act and became a popular comedian.

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John Deere

Deere & Company, doing business as John Deere, is an American corporation that manufactures agricultural machinery, heavy equipment, forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains (axles, transmissions, gearboxes) used in heavy equipment, and lawn care equipment.

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John Deere (inventor)

John Deere (February 7, 1804 – May 17, 1886) was an American blacksmith, businessman, inventor, and politician.

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John Deere Classic

The John Deere Classic is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour.

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John Deere Pavilion

The John Deere Pavilion is an attraction and museum located in Moline, Illinois.

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John Deere World Headquarters

The John Deere World Headquarters is a complex of four buildings located on of land at One John Deere Place, Moline, Illinois, United States.

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John Flannagan (priest)

John Thomas Aloysius Flannagan (1860–1926) was 19th and 20th century Catholic priest who served as the second president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa from 1891 to 1906.

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John Getz

John William Getz is an American character actor.

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John Patrick Looney

John Patrick Looney (1865–1942) was an American political fixer and Irish mob boss based in Rock Island, Illinois during the early 20th century.

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Johnny Lujack

John Christopher Lujack Jr. (January 4, 1925 – July 25, 2023) was an American football quarterback and safety who played for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL).

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Joseph W. Bettendorf

Joseph W. Bettendorf (October 10, 1864 – May, 1933) was an American businessman with his brother William P. Bettendorf in Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa.

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Josh Kroeger

Joshua J. Kroeger (born August 31, 1982) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.

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Joslin, Illinois

Joslin is an unincorporated community in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States and is located on Illinois Route 92 near Interstate 88.

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Jude Cole

Jude Anthony Cole (born June 18, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and talent manager from Carbon Cliff, Illinois.

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Julia Michaels

Julia Carin Michaels (née Cavazos; born November 13, 1993) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Julian Vandervelde

Julian Vandervelde (born October 7, 1987) is a former American football center.

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Just Wanna Rock N' Roll

"Just Wanna Rock N' Roll" is a song written by Rodney Clawson and Chris Tompkins, and recorded by American country music artist Rodney Atkins.

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Justin Diercks

Justin Diercks (born April 4, 1980) is an American professional stock car racing driver.

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Kansas City Royals

The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri.

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Kari Lake

Kari Lake Halperin (born August 23, 1969) is an American former television news anchor.

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Ken Anderson (quarterback)

Kenneth Allan Anderson (born February 15, 1949) is an American former football quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL), spending his entire career with the Cincinnati Bengals.

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Ken Berry

Kenneth Ronald Berry (November 3, 1933 – December 1, 2018) was an American actor, comedian, dancer, and singer.

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Ken Bowman

Kenneth Brian Bowman (December 15, 1942 – December 27, 2023) was an American professional football player who played 10 seasons as a center for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1964 to 1973.

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Keokuk (Sauk leader)

Keokuk (circa 1780–June 1848) was a leader of the Sauk tribe in central North America, and for decades was one of the most recognized Native American leaders and noted for his accommodation with the U.S. government.

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Kewanee, Illinois

Kewanee is a city in Henry County, Illinois.

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Kone

Kone Oyj (officially known as KONE and trading as KONE Corporation) is an elevator engineering company employing over 60,000 personnel across 60 countries worldwide.

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KWQC-TV

KWQC-TV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Davenport, Iowa, United States, serving the Quad Cities area as an affiliate of NBC.

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Lane Evans

Lane Allen Evans (August 4, 1951 – November 5, 2014) was an American attorney and politician who served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007, representing the 17th District of Illinois.

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Lara Flynn Boyle

Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970) is an American actress.

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LeClaire, Iowa

LeClaire is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Lee Enterprises

Lee Enterprises, Inc. is a publicly traded American media company.

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Lewis Machine & Tool Company (LMT) is an American armaments company founded by Karl Lewis, in 1980.

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Lighthouse

A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

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Linnea Quigley

Barbara Linnea Quigley (born May 27, 1958) is an American actress, film producer, model, singer, and author.

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Lisa Bluder

Lisa Marie Bluder (born April 16, 1961) is the former head coach of the Iowa Hawkeyes women's basketball program.

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Lissie

Elisabeth Corrin Maurus (born November 21, 1982), known as Lissie, is an American singer-songwriter.

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List of sovereign states

The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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List of tallest buildings in the Quad Cities

The Quad Cities is a conglomerate of five cities spanning over two states in America.

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Lock and Dam No. 15

Lock and Dam No.

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Long Grove, Iowa

Long Grove is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Louie Bellson

Louie Bellson (born Luigi Paolino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni, July 6, 1924 – February 14, 2009), often seen in sources as Louis Bellson, although he himself preferred the spelling Louie, was an American jazz drummer.

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Louise Carver

Louise Carver (June 9, 1869 - June 19, 1956) was an American actress who performed in grand opera, stage, nickelodeon, and motion pictures.

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Low-power broadcasting

Low-power broadcasting is broadcasting by a broadcast station at a low transmitter power output to a smaller service area than "full power" stations within the same region.

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Lynn Center, Illinois

Lynn Center is an unincorporated community in Lynn Township, Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Madison Keys

Madison Keys (born February 17, 1995) is an American professional tennis player.

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Mainline Protestant

The mainline Protestant churches (sometimes also known as oldline Protestants) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States and Canada largely of the theologically liberal or theologically progressive persuasion that contrast in history and practice with the largely theologically conservative Evangelical, Fundamentalist, Charismatic, Confessional, Confessing Movement, historically Black church, and Global South Protestant denominations and congregations.

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Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.

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Marathon

The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of, usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes.

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Margo Price

Margo Rae Price (born April 15, 1983) is an American country singer-songwriter, producer, and author based in Nashville.

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Maritime pilot

A maritime pilot, marine pilot, harbor pilot, port pilot, ship pilot, or simply pilot, is a mariner who has specific knowledge of an often dangerous or congested waterway, such as harbors or river mouths.

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Mark Johnson (wrestler)

Mark Johnson is a former Olympic wrestler and two time NCAA All-American.

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Martin Cone

Martin Cone (1882–1963) was a Catholic priest in the United States and served as the sixth president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa from 1930 to 1937.

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Marvin Cone

Marvin Dorwart Cone (October 21, 1891 – May 18, 1965) was an American painter in the regionalist style.

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Marvin Mottet

Marvin Alfred Mottet (May 31, 1930 – September 16, 2016) was a 20th and 21st century Roman Catholic priest in the Diocese of Davenport in the US state of Iowa.

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Mary Beth Peil

Mary Beth Peil (born June 25, 1940) is an American actress and soprano.

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Matherville, Illinois

Matherville is a village in Mercer County, Illinois, United States.

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Matt Hughes (fighter)

Matthew Allen Hughes (born October 13, 1973) is an American retired mixed martial artist with a background in wrestling.

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Matthew Ashford

Matthew Nile Ashford (born January 29, 1960) is an American actor who has played various roles on Days of Our Lives and The Bay.

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Maysville, Iowa

Maysville is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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McCausland, Iowa

McCausland is a city in Butler Township, Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media such as newspapers and internet content.

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Mercer County, Illinois

Mercer County is a county in Illinois.

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Metropolitan area

A metropolitan area or metro is a region consisting of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories which are sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing.

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Metropolitan statistical area

In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the region.

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Michael Nunn

Michael John Nunn (born April 14, 1963) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1984 to 2002.

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Midwest League

The Midwest League is a Minor League Baseball league established in 1947 and based in the Midwestern United States.

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Mike Butcher (baseball)

Michael Dana Butcher (born May 10, 1965) is an American professional baseball pitcher and coach.

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Milan, Illinois

Milan is a village in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Miletich Fighting Systems

Miletich Fighting Systems (MFS) was a mixed martial arts (MMA) training organization.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.

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Minneapolis–Saint Paul

Minneapolis–Saint Paul is a metropolitan area in the Upper Midwestern United States centered around the confluence of the Mississippi, Minnesota, and St. Croix rivers in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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Minor League Baseball

Minor League Baseball (MiLB) is a professional baseball organization below Major League Baseball (MLB), including teams affiliated with MLB clubs.

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Minority group

The term "minority group" has different usages, depending on the context.

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Mississippi Athletic Conference

Mississippi Athletic Conference (MAC Conference, or MAC) is a high school athletic conference whose members are located in the Iowa Quad-Cities, plus three other schools in eastern Iowa.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Missouri

Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world.

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Modern Woodmen of America

Modern Woodmen of America (MWA) is an American fraternal benefit societies in the United States, which sells various investments and insurance products, with membership over 750,000 as of 2017.

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Modern Woodmen Park

Modern Woodmen Park (known previously as John O'Donnell Stadium and Municipal Stadium) is a minor league baseball venue located in Davenport, Iowa.

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Moline Plowboys

The Moline Plowboys was a primary name of the minor league baseball teams based in Moline, Illinois, one of the Quad Cities.

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Moline station

Moline station is a proposed train station in Moline, Illinois, intended to serve as the terminus of the Quad Cities Amtrak line.

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Moline, Illinois

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

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Montgomery Elevator

Montgomery Elevator Company was a vertical transportation company founded in 1892, but entered the elevator business in 1910, acquired Roelofson Elevator of Galt, Ontario in the early 1960s and operated it as its Canadian Division.

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Montpelier, Iowa

Montpelier is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Muscatine County, Iowa, United States.

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Muscatine County, Iowa

Muscatine County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Nat Pendleton

Nathaniel Greene Pendleton (August 9, 1895 – October 12, 1967) was an American Olympic wrestler, film actor, and stage performer.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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National Basketball League (United States)

The National Basketball League (NBL) was a professional basketball league in the United States.

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The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC).

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National Hockey League

The National Hockey League (NHL; Ligue nationale de hockey, LNH) is a professional ice hockey league in North America comprising 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value".

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Navistar

Navistar International Corporation is an American holding company created in 1986 as the successor to International Harvester.

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NCAA Division I

NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally.

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Neighborhoods of Davenport, Iowa

The city of Davenport, Iowa, United States has neighborhoods dating back to the 1840s.

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Nekoma, Illinois

Nekoma is an unincorporated community in Weller Township, Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Neon Trees

Neon Trees are an American rock band from Provo, Utah.

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Nestlé Purina PetCare

Nestlé Purina PetCare, or simply Purina, is an American subsidiary of the Swiss corporation Nestlé, based in St. Louis, Missouri.

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New Liberty, Iowa

New Liberty is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Nielsen Audio

Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences.

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Nielsen Media Research (NMR) is an American firm that measures media audiences, including television, radio, theatre, films (via the AMC Theatres MAP program), and newspapers.

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Nordic and Scandinavian Americans

Nordic and Scandinavian Americans are Americans of Scandinavian and/or Nordic ancestry, including Danish Americans (estimate: 1,453,897), Faroese Americans, Finnish Americans (estimate: 653,222), Greenlandic Americans, Icelandic Americans (estimate: 49,442), Norwegian Americans (estimate: 4,602,337), and Swedish Americans (estimate: 4,293,208).

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North Henderson, Illinois

North Henderson is a village in Mercer County, Illinois, United States.

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Norwegian Americans

Norwegian Americans (Norskamerikanere) are Americans with ancestral roots in Norway.

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Oak Grove, Illinois

Oak Grove is a village in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Old Main, Augustana College

Old Main, Augustana College is an historic building located in Rock Island, Illinois, United States.

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Ophiem, Illinois

Ophiem is an unincorporated community in Lynn Township, Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Oran Pape

Oran Henry Pape (March 10, 1904 – April 30, 1936) was a member of the Iowa State Patrol in the United States.

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Orion, Illinois

Orion is a village in Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Oscar Mayer

Oscar Mayer is an American meat and cold cut producer known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon, ham, and Lunchables products.

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Osco, Illinois

Osco is an unincorporated community in Osco Township, Henry County, Illinois, United States.

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Otto Frederick Rohwedder

Otto Frederick Rohwedder (July 28, 1880 – November 8, 1960) was an American inventor and engineer who created the first automatic bread-slicing machine for commercial use.

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Palmer College of Chiropractic

Palmer College of Chiropractic is a private chiropractic college with its main campus in Davenport, Iowa.

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Panorama Park, Iowa

Panorama Park is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Paramount Theatre (Manhattan)

The Paramount Theatre was a 3,664-seat movie palace located at 43rd Street and Broadway on Times Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Park View, Iowa

Park View is a census-designated place (CDP) in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Pat Angerer

Patrick Aaron Angerer (born January 31, 1987) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL).

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Pat Miletich

Patrick Jay Miletich (born March 9, 1968) is a retired American mixed martial artist and former sports commentator.

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Pat Patrick (musician)

Laurdine Kenneth "Pat" Patrick Jr. (November 23, 1929 – December 31, 1991) was an American jazz musician and composer.

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Payne Stewart

William Payne Stewart (January 30, 1957 – October 25, 1999) was an American professional golfer who won 11 PGA Tour events, including three major championships, the last of which came just a few months before his death in an airplane accident at the age of 42.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.

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Perry Lafferty

Perry Francis Lafferty (October 3, 1917 – August 25, 2005) was an American television producer and network television executive who produced several television programs, including the CBS programs All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Maude and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

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PGA Tour

The PGA Tour (stylized as PGA TOUR by its officials) is the organizer of professional golf tours in North America.

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Plainview, Iowa

Plainview is an unincorporated community in Cleona and Hickory Grove Townships, Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Pleasant Valley Township, Scott County, Iowa

Pleasant Valley Township is a township in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Port Byron, Illinois

Port Byron is a village in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States and part of the Quad Cities Metropolitan Area.

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Preemption, Illinois

Preemption is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Preemption Township, Mercer County, Illinois, United States.

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Premier Basketball League

The Premier Basketball League, often abbreviated to the PBL, is an American professional men's basketball minor league that began play in January 2008.

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Princeton, Iowa

Princeton is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Putnam Museum

The Putnam Museum and Science Center, formerly Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, is a museum of history and natural science and a science center in Davenport, Iowa, United States.

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QCR Holdings

QCR Holdings, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides commercial and consumer banking, and trust and asset management services for the Quad City and Cedar Rapids communities.

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Quad Cities

The Quad Cities is a region of cities (originally four, see History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline in northwestern Illinois. Quad Cities and Quad Cities are metropolitan areas of Illinois and metropolitan areas of Iowa.

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Quad Cities (train)

The Quad Cities is a planned Amtrak Illinois Service intercity passenger train that will operate between Chicago and Moline in the US state of Illinois.

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Quad Cities International Airport

Quad Cities International Airport is a public airport in Rock Island County, Illinois, three miles (5 km) south of Moline, partly in Blackhawk Township and partly in Coal Valley Township.

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Quad Cities MetroLINK

The Quad Cities MetroLINK, officially the Rock Island County Metropolitan Mass Transit District, provides mass transportation for the Illinois half of the Quad Cities metro area.

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Quad Cities River Bandits

The Quad Cities River Bandits are a Minor League Baseball team of the Midwest League and the High-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals.

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Quad Cities Silverbacks

The Quad Cities Silverbacks was an International Fight League team based in the Quad Cities region of the United States.

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Quad Cities Waterfront Convention Center

The Quad Cities Waterfront Convention Center is a convention center located in Bettendorf, Iowa, United States.

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Quad City Botanical Center

The Quad City Botanical Center is a set of botanical gardens located next to the Mississippi River at 2525 4th Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois.

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Quad City Flames

The Quad City Flames was an American professional ice hockey team that played in the American Hockey League from 2007 to 2009.

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Quad City Mallards

The Quad City Mallards were a minor league professional ice hockey team based in the Quad Cities area of Illinois and Iowa that competed in the International Hockey League, Central Hockey League and ECHL.

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Quad City Mallards (1995–2007)

The Quad City Mallards were a minor professional ice hockey team in the United Hockey League.

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Quad City Riverhawks

The Quad City Riverhawks were a team of the Premier Basketball League that previously played in the modern American Basketball Association (ABA).

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Quad City Steamwheelers

The Quad City Steamwheelers were a professional arena football team.

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Quad City Steamwheelers (2018–)

The Quad City Steamwheelers are an indoor American football team that began play in 2018.

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Quad City Storm

The Quad City Storm is a professional minor league hockey team to begin play in the 2018–19 season as a member of the SPHL.

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Quad City Symphony Orchestra

The Quad City Symphony Orchestra (QCSO) is a United States symphony orchestra based in Davenport, Iowa, and representing the Quad Cities area.

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Quad City Thunder

The Quad City Thunder was a Continental Basketball Association (CBA) franchise that was based in the Quad Cities of Illinois and Iowa.

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Quad City–style pizza

Quad City–style pizza is a variety of pizza originating in the Quad Cities region of the states of Illinois and Iowa in the United States.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Randy Shilts

Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951February 17, 1994) was an American journalist and author.

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Rapids City, Illinois

Rapids City is a village in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Red Auerbach

Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach (September 20, 1917 – October 28, 2006) was an American professional basketball coach and executive.

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Regional Plan Association

The Regional Plan Association is an independent, not-for-profit regional planning organization, founded in 1922, that focuses on recommendations to improve the quality of life and economic competitiveness of a 31-county New York–New Jersey–Connecticut region in the New York metropolitan area.

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Reynolds, Illinois

Reynolds is a village mainly in Rock Island County in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Ricky Davis

Tyree Ricardo Davis (born September 23, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who played twelve seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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River Music Experience

Common Chord formally known as the River Music Experience is a multi-use music facility and 501(c)3 non-profit organization located on the first two floors of the historic Redstone Building in downtown Davenport, Iowa.

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Riverboat

A riverboat is a watercraft designed for inland navigation on lakes, rivers, and artificial waterways.

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Riverdale, Iowa

Riverdale is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States.

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Robbie Lawler

Robert Glenn Lawler (born March 20, 1982) is an American former professional mixed martial artist who competed between 2001 and 2023.

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Roby Smith

Roby Smith (born 1977) is an American businessman and politician from Iowa.

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Rock Island Arsenal

The Rock Island Arsenal comprises 946 acres (383 ha) and is located on Arsenal Island, originally known as Rock Island, on the Mississippi River between the cities of Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois.

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Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois

Rock Island Arsenal is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Rock Island Centennial Bridge

The Rock Island Centennial Bridge, officially the Master Sergeant Stanley W. Talbot Memorial Bridge, connects Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa.

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Rock Island County, Illinois

Rock Island County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois, bounded on the west by the Mississippi River.

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Rock Island Independents

The Rock Island Independents were a professional American football team, based in Rock Island, Illinois, from 1907 to 1926.

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Rock Island Islanders

The Rock Island Islanders was the primary name of the minor league baseball teams based in Rock Island, Illinois, one of the Quad Cities, between 1892 and 1937.

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Rock Island, Illinois

Rock Island is a city in and the county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Rock River (Mississippi River tributary)

The Rock River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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Rodney Atkins

Rodney Allan Atkins (born March 28, 1969) is an American country music singer and songwriter.

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Roger Timothy Craig (born July 10, 1960) is an American former football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL).

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Roger Perry

Roger Perry (May 7, 1933 – July 12, 2018) was an American film and television actor whose career began in the late 1950s.

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Roller dam

A roller dam is a type of hydro-control device specially designed to mitigate erosion.

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Samuel Franklin Cody

Samuel Franklin Cowdery (later known as Samuel Franklin Cody; 6 March 1867 – 7 August 1913, born Davenport, Iowa, USA)) was a Wild West showman and early pioneer of manned flight. He is most famous for his work on the large kites known as Cody War-Kites, that were used by the British before World War I as a smaller alternative to balloons for artillery spotting.

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Sauk people

The Sauk or Sac are Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands.

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Scott Beck and Bryan Woods

Scott Beck (born October 22, 1984) and Bryan Woods (born September 14, 1984) are an American filmmaking duo.

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Scott Community College is a community college in Riverdale, Iowa, near Bettendorf,"." U.S. Census Bureau.

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Scott County, Iowa

Scott County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Scott Pose

Scott Vernon Pose (born February 11, 1967) is an American former professional baseball outfielder.

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Sears Seating

Sears Seating is an American producer of seating for agricultural, construction, and material handling equipment and heavy-duty, over-the-road trucks worldwide.

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Sebastian Menke

Sebastian G. Menke (December 21, 1910 – April 21, 2002) was a 20th-century Catholic priest in the United States who served as the tenth president of St. Ambrose College in Davenport, Iowa from 1964 to 1973.

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Sergeant John F. Baker Jr. Bridge

The Sergeant John F. Baker Jr. Bridge, also known as the Baker Bridge or Interstate 280 Bridge, carries Interstate 280 (I-280) across the Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois.

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Seth Rollins

Colby Daniel Lopez (born May 28, 1986) is an American professional wrestler.

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Sherrard, Illinois

Sherrard is a village in Mercer County, Illinois, United States.

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Silvis, Illinois

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

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Slave states and free states

In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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SPHL

The SPHL (formerly the Southern Professional Hockey League) is a professional ice hockey independent minor league based in Huntersville, North Carolina, with teams located primarily in the southeastern United States as well as Illinois and Indiana in the midwestern United States.

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Spike O'Dell

William "Spike" O'Dell (born May 21, 1953), a native of East Moline, Illinois, is an American former radio host for WGN Radio in Chicago, Illinois.

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St. Ambrose University

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St. Louis

St.

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Steve Kuberski

Stephen Phil Kuberski (born November 6, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player.

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Stuart Margolin

Stuart Margolin (January 31, 1940 – December 12, 2022) was an American film, theater, and television actor and director who won two Emmy Awards for playing Evelyn "Angel" Martin on the 1970s television series The Rockford Files.

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Sue Lyon

Suellyn Lyon (July 10, 1946 – December 26, 2019) was an American actress who is most famous today for playing Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 film adaptation of Nabokov's eponymous novel, for which she was awarded a Golden Globe.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Susan Glaspell

Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 28, 1948) was an American playwright, novelist, journalist and actress.

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Suzy Bogguss

Susan Kay Bogguss (born December 30, 1956) is an American country music singer and songwriter.

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Swedish Americans

Swedish Americans (Svenskamerikaner) are Americans of Swedish descent.

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Tavian Banks

Tavian Remond Banks (born February 17, 1974) is an American former football player and coach who played as a running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League (NFL).

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Taylor Ridge, Illinois

Taylor Ridge is a census-designated place (CDP) in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.

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The Col Ballroom

The Col Ballroom is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States.

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The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus

The Dispatch–Argus is a daily morning newspaper in Davenport, Iowa and circulated primarily throughout the Illinois side of the Quad Cities — Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County, but also for sale in retail establishments on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities — Davenport and Bettendorf.

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The HON Company

The HON Company designs and manufactures office furniture including chairs, cubicals, tables, desks and education furniture.

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Thomas Hart Benton (painter)

Thomas Hart Benton (April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975) was an American painter, muralist, and printmaker.

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Tiger Woods

Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods (born December 30, 1975) is an American professional golfer.

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Tim Sylvia

Timothy Deane Sylvia (born March 5, 1976) is an American retired mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, professional wrestler, and a former two-time UFC Heavyweight Champion.

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Tom Harkin

Thomas Richard Harkin (born November 19, 1939) is an American lawyer, author, and politician who served as a United States senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015.

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Tribal chief

A tribal chief, chieftain, or headman is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.

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Tyson Foods

Tyson Foods, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas that operates in the food industry.

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U.S. Open (golf)

The United States Open Championship, commonly known as the U.S. Open, is the annual open national championship of golf in the United States.

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U.S. Route 150

U.S. Route 150 (US 150) is a 571-mile (919 km) long northwest–southeast United States highway, signed as east–west.

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U.S. Route 6

U.S. Route 6 (US 6) or U.S. Highway 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the United States Numbered Highway System.

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U.S. Route 61

U.S. Route 61 or U.S. Highway 61 (U.S. 61) is a major United States highway that extends between New Orleans, Louisiana and the city of Wyoming, Minnesota.

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U.S. Route 67

U.S. Route 67 is a major north–south U.S. highway which extends for 1,560 miles (2,511 km) in the Central United States.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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United Hockey League

The United Hockey League (UHL), originally known as the Colonial Hockey League from 1991 to 1997 and last known as the International Hockey League from 2007 to 2010, was a low-level minor professional ice hockey league, with teams in the United States and Canada.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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UnityPoint Health

UnityPoint Health is a hospital network in the U.S. states of Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

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Upper Iowa University

Upper Iowa University (UIU) is a private university in Fayette, Iowa, United States.

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Vander Veer Botanical Park

The Vander Veer Botanical Park is a botanical garden in the Vander Veer Park Historic District of Davenport, Iowa.

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Vaudeville

Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment which began in France at the end of the 19th century.

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Vibrant Arena at The MARK

The Vibrant Arena at The MARK, formerly known as The MARK of the Quad Cities, the iWireless Center, and the TaxSlayer Center, is a 12,000-seat multi-purpose arena located in Moline, Illinois.

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Vietnamese Americans

Vietnamese Americans (Người Mỹ gốc Việt) are Americans of Vietnamese ancestry.

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Vijay Singh

Vijay Singh (विजय सिंह; born 22 February 1963) is a Fijian professional golfer.

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Vincent Hugo Bendix

Vincent Hugo Bendix (August 12, 1881 – March 27, 1945) was an American inventor and industrialist.

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Viola, Illinois

Viola (pronounced vy-OLA) is a village in Mercer County, Illinois, United States.

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Von Maur

Von Maur, Inc. is an American department store chain based in Davenport, Iowa.

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Walcott, Iowa

Walcott (/ˈwɔlkɔt/ ''WAWL-cawt'') is a city in Muscatine and Scott counties in the U.S. state of Iowa.

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Walmart

Walmart Inc. (formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), discount department stores, and grocery stores in the United States, headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.

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Warren E. Hearnes

Warren Eastman Hearnes (July 24, 1923 – August 16, 2009) was an American politician who served as the 46th governor of Missouri from 1965 to 1973.

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Western Big 6 Conference

The Western Big 6 Conference is a high school conference in western central Illinois.

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Western Illinois University

Western Illinois University (WIU) is a public university in Macomb, Illinois.

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Wharton Field House

Wharton Field House is a historic arena located at 1800 20th Avenue in Moline, Illinois.

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Whitey's Ice Cream

Whitey's Ice Cream is an ice-cream parlor chain based in Moline, Illinois.

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Wild Dog (character)

Wild Dog is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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William P. Bettendorf

William P. Bettendorf (July 1, 1857 – June 3, 1910) was an American inventor.

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Winfield Scott

Winfield Scott (June 13, 1786May 29, 1866) was an American military commander and political candidate.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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2010 United States census

The 2010 United States census was the 23rd United States census.

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See also

Metropolitan areas of Illinois

• Bloomington–Normal
• Cape Girardeau–Jackson metropolitan area
• Carbondale, Illinois
• Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area
• Champaign-Decatur CSA
• Chicago metropolitan area
• Danville, Illinois
• Decatur, Illinois
• Greater St. Louis
• Kankakee, Illinois
• Paducah metropolitan area
• Peoria, Illinois, metropolitan area
• Quad Cities
• Rockford metropolitan area, Illinois
• Springfield metropolitan area, Illinois
• Tri-Cities, Illinois

Metropolitan areas of Iowa

• Des Moines metropolitan area
• Iowa City metropolitan area
• Omaha–Council Bluffs metropolitan area
• Quad Cities
• Sioux City metropolitan area
• Waterloo – Cedar Falls metropolitan area

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quad_Cities

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