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The Quad Cities is located at the confluence of the Rock and Mississippi rivers, approximately 140 miles (230 km) west of Chicago, and forms the largest metropolitan area along the Mississippi River between Minneapolis–Saint Paul and the St. Louis metropolitan area. Interstate 80 crosses the Mississippi River here.
The Rock Island Centennial Bridge, officially the Master Sergeant Stanley W. Talbot Memorial Bridge, connects Rock Island, Illinois, and Davenport, Iowa. The bridge is 3,850 feet (1,173 m) long and stands 170 feet (52 m) above water level. Construction of the bridge began in 1938 and it opened on July 12, 1940, [3] as a toll bridge.
Greater Quad Cities, IA–IL is a nickname for the Davenport – Moline, IA – IL Combined Statistical Area, [1] an area that is made up of four counties in Iowa and three in Illinois. The statistical area includes one metropolitan areas and two micropolitan area. As of the 2010 Census, the CSA had a population of 471,551 (though a March 2017 ...
The Quad Cities is a conglomerate of five cities spanning over two states in America. Spanning across 440.3 km² (170 mi²), it hosts many buildings and this is a list of the tallest buildings in the Quad Cities area. Currently, the tallest building in the Quad cities is the Davenport Bank and Trust, reaching 78m high with seventeen floors. Rank.
The Quad Cities are Rock Island, Moline and East Moline, Illinois, and Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa. Subcategories This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total.
The city has a Class A minor league baseball team, the Quad Cities River Bandits and hosts the Quad City Air Show, Iowa's largest airshow. 4 Sioux City: 85,797 Woodbury, Plymouth: Sioux City is at the navigational head of the Missouri River, about 95 miles north of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. Sioux City and the surrounding areas ...
The Quad-City Times, based in Davenport, is circulated throughout the Quad Cities metropolitan area, including Davenport, Bettendorf and Scott County in Iowa; and Moline, East Moline, Rock Island and Rock Island County in Illinois. The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus, published in East Moline, is a daily newspaper based on the Illinois side.
People who were born or lived or worked in the Quad Cities: Rock Island and Moline, Illinois, and Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.