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The city of Moline is nestled beside and on a broad bluff situated between the banks of the Mississippi River and Rock River in Rock Island County, Illinois. The city's highland areas are cut across by many deep ravines that break up the city into natural neighborhoods. The city is bounded to the east by East Moline and to the west by Rock Island.
The building opened in 1962 after two years of construction, [1] at a cost of $22 million. [2] The City-County Building is notable as the first building to surpass the height of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument. It remained the tallest building in the city until 1970. [1] The building's total floor area covers 734,447 sq ft (68,232.4 m 2). [3]
Moline c. 1840. The city of Moline traces its beginnings to the arrival of David B. Sears from Cairo, Illinois in 1836. [3] He established a brush and stone mill in 1838 in what was an unincorporated area known as Rock Island Mills. Other mills were opened in the area that did everything from grinding corn and wheat to processing logs into lumber.
The Government of Indianapolis—officially the Consolidated City of Indianapolis and Marion County—is a strong-mayor form of mayor-council government system. [2] Local government is headquartered downtown at the City-County Building. [3] Since 1970, Indianapolis and Marion County have operated as a consolidated city-county government called ...
When the Unigov provision was enacted, the First Class City population threshold was 250,000. Indianapolis had a population of over 500,000 people in 1970, more than double the threshold. The next most populous city was Fort Wayne with a population of 174,000; as such, Indianapolis was the only city affected by the legislation.
Indianapolis elected seven new faces to the 25-member City-County Council on Nov. 7, one Republican and six Democrats, who will be sworn in Jan. 1.
The city used $40,000 in Community Block Grant money to buy the house in 1993. [3] The property was shown 70 times over three years to prospective buyers and received five serious bids. The city sold the property in 1996 to a private owner for $100. [3] The new owners were to complete the renovations on the house by the year 2000.
The will of Indianapolis druggist Stephen D. Tomlinson, who had died on November 14, 1870, provided that the residue of his estate would, upon the death of his wife, Mary Todd Brown Tomlinson, be given to city of Indianapolis to construct a "public building" on the western portion of what was then East Market Square, a farmer's market that had operated since the 1830s.