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Eagle Food Centers was a chain of supermarkets that operated in Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois for several years. The company was based in Milan, Illinois.The company operated stores under many names, including BOGO'S, Eagle Country Market, Eagle Discount Centers, Eagle Discount Supermarkets, Eagle Food Centers, May's Drug and MEMCO.
Sears Seating is an American producer of seating for agricultural, construction, and material handling equipment and heavy-duty, over-the-road trucks worldwide. It was founded in 1855 by Isaac Howe Sears, remains headquartered in Davenport, Iowa, and as of 2019, has over 600 employees in the Quad Cities.
Davenport Bank and Trust: Davenport 255 / 78 17 1927 Tallest building in the Quad Cities [1] [2] [3] 2 MidAmerican Building: Davenport 220 / 66 15 1995 Second tallest building in the Quad Cities; tallest building constructed in the Quad Cities in the 1990s. [4] [3] 3 Kone Tower Moline 180 / 55 16 1966 Elevator testing building (inactive).
The Quad Cities metropolitan area, more formally known as the Davenport–Moline–Rock Island Metropolitan Statistical Area , is the metropolitan area associated with the Quad Cities in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois. The Davenport–Moline–Rock Island MSA consists of four counties – Scott County in Iowa and Henry, Mercer, and Rock ...
Henry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. The 2020 United States Census, listed its population at 49,284. [1] Its county seat is Cambridge. [2] Henry County is included in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. [3]
It is based across the river from Davenport in Rock Island, Illinois. In 1929 Royal Neighbors passed a resolution to establish a facility that would provide a home for mothers and other women in their organization who were in need of assistance. They bought 40 acres (16 ha) of land along Rockingham Road in Davenport's west end in February 1930. [3]
Moline is one of the Quad Cities at the confluence of the Rock and Mississippi rivers, along with neighboring East Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and the cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa. The Quad Cities had a population of about 380,000 in 2023. The city is the ninth-most populous in Illinois outside the Chicago metropolitan area.
In the mid-18th century, wheat culture spread to the tidewaters of Maryland and Virginia, where George Washington was a prominent grower as he diversified away from tobacco. The crop moved west, with Ohio as the center in 1840 and Illinois in 1860. [110] Illinois replaced its wheat with corn (which was used locally to feed hogs).