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Port Louisa National Wildlife Refuge is a 10,780-acre (43.6 km 2) National Wildlife Refuge located on the Mississippi River at the border of Illinois and Iowa.The refuge is east of Wapello, in Louisa County, Iowa and Mercer County, Illinois.
Illinois Route 64 (IL 64, Illinois 64) is an east–west state highway in Northern Illinois. Its western terminus is at the Iowa state line, connecting with U.S. Route 52 (US 52) and Iowa Highway 64 via the Dale Gardner Veterans Memorial Bridge at the Mississippi River west of Savanna .
The most populous of these is Cook County, the second-most populous county in the United States and the home of Chicago, while the least populous is Hardin County. The largest by land area is McLean County, while the smallest is Putnam County. Illinois's FIPS state code is 17 and its postal abbreviation is IL.
The Winnebago County Forest Preserve District owns and operates six preserve along the river in Winnebago County. The river is the chief attraction of the 1,048-acre (424 ha) Pecatonica Wetlands Forest Preserve and the 221-acre (89 ha) Crooked River Forest Preserve off U.S. Highway 20 near Pecatonica, Illinois.
Illinois Route 9 (IL 9) is a 218.31-mile-long (351.34 km) cross-state, east–west rural state highway in the central part of the U.S. state of Illinois. It travels from Niota at the Fort Madison Toll Bridge , that crosses the Mississippi River into Iowa , eastward across central Illinois to State Road 26 (SR 26) at the Indiana state line.
The Tri-Cities, or Tri-City area, is a vernacular region that is situated between the large cities of Aurora and Elgin, Illinois, and encompasses the cities of Batavia, Geneva, and St. Charles. A " vernacular region " is a distinctive area where the inhabitants collectively consider themselves interconnected by a shared history, mutual ...
East Moline is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States.The population was 21,374 at the 2020 census. [4] East Moline is one of the Quad Cities [citation needed] at the confluence of the Rock and Mississippi rivers, along with neighboring Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and the cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa.
Illinois Route 92 (IL 92 or Route 92) is an east–west state highway in northwest Illinois. It runs from the Norbert F. Beckey Bridge across the Mississippi River where it meets the eastern end of Iowa Highway 92 , east to U.S. Route 34 in La Moille .