kolej-i-drogi: Moline, Illinois

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Moline ( moh-LEEN) is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. The population was 42,985 as of the 2020 census, and was estimated at 42,362 in 2025. It is the largest city in Rock Island County and the 36th-most populous in Illinois outside the Chicago metropolitan area. 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 metropolitan area had a population of approximately 380,452 as of 2025. Moline was established in 1843. The name derives from the French moulin meaning "mill [town]". The corporate headquarters o…

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Illinois is a state located in the Midwestern United States. According to the 2020 United States census, Illinois is the 6th most populous state with 12,812,508 inhabitants but the 24th largest by land area spanning 55,499.0 square miles (143,742 km2) of land. Illinois is divided into 102 counties and, as of 2020, contained 1,300 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, and villages. The most populous city is Chicago with 2,746,388 residents while the least populous is Valley City with 14 residents. The largest municipality by land area is Chicago, which spans 227.73 mi2 (589.8 km2), while the smallest is Irwin at 0.045 mi2 (0.12 km2).

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Moline High School is a public four-year high school located in Moline, Illinois, a city in Rock Island County, in the Midwest area of the United States. The school is the only public high school in the city of Moline, and is part of Moline-Coal Valley School District #40. The district (of which this is the sole comprehensive high school) includes the majority of Moline along with the portion of Coal Valley in Rock Island County, and half of Rock Island Arsenal, along with a small piece of Milan. The Rock Island Arsenal garrison provides a school bus service to the Moline district from the on-post residences.

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The Quad Cities is a region of five cities 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. These cities are the center of the Quad Cities metropolitan area, a region within the Mississippi River Valley, which as of 2025, had a population estimate of 380,452 and a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) population of 468,307, making it the 148th-largest MSA and 91st-largest CSA in the nation.

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East Moline is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. The population was 21,374 at the 2020 census. East Moline was incorporated in April 1907. It is one of the five Quad Cities at the confluence of the Rock and Mississippi rivers, along with neighboring Moline and Rock Island in Illinois and Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa.

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The Chicago metropolitan area, also known as Chicagoland, is the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwest. The metropolitan area contains the City of Chicago along with its surrounding suburbs, satellite cities, and hinterland, spanning several counties across northeast Illinois and northwest Indiana. The MSA had a 2020 census population of 9,618,502, part of the fouth-largest combined statistical area in the United States, spanning 19 counties with a population of nearly 10 million. The Chicago area is the third-largest metropolitan statistical area in the United States, the fourth-largest in North America (after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles…

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Greater Quad Cities, IA–IL is a nickname for the Davenport–Moline, IA–IL Combined Statistical Area, 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 areas. As of the 2010 Census, the CSA had a population of 471,551 (though a March 2017 estimate placed the population at 472,153). The area consists of the: Quad Cities Metropolitan Area, population 383,681 Clinton, IA Micropolitan Statistical Area, population 48,420 Muscatine, Iowa micropolitan area, population 54,118

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Illinois ( IL-ih-NOY) is a state in the Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Wabash and Ohio rivers to its south, and the Mississippi River generally to its west. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the sixth-largest population, and the 25th-most land area. Its capital city is Springfield in the center of the state, and the state's largest city is Chicago, located in northeastern Illinois. Present-day Illinois was inhabited by Indigenous cultures for thousands of years. The French were the first Europeans to arrive, settling near the Mississippi and Illinois rivers in the 17th-century Illinois Country,…

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The Rock Island Arsenal comprises 946 acres (383 ha) located on Arsenal Island, originally known as Rock Island, on the Mississippi River between the cities of Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Illinois. It is home to the United States Army First Army Headquarters, and the United States Army Center of Excellence for Additive Manufacturing. Historically, the indigenous Sauk people used Rock Island as their summer camp site. Encroaching European Americans coming into the area disputed the claim of tribal ownership, and competition between the peoples led to the Black Hawk War of 1832, named for Black Hawk, the primary leader of the Sauk. In 1816, the federal government authorized the army to…

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Rock Island is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. The population was 37,108 at the 2020 census. Located at the confluence of the Rock and Mississippi rivers, it is one of the Quad Cities along with neighboring Moline and East Moline in Illinois and the cities of Davenport and Bettendorf in Iowa. The Quad Cities metropolitan area had a population of 384,324 in 2020. The city is home to Rock Island Arsenal, the largest government-owned weapons manufacturing arsenal in the United States, which employs 6,000 people. The original Rock Island, from which the city name is derived, is now called Arsenal Island.

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Rock Island County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois, bounded on the west by the Mississippi River. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 144,672. Its county seat is Rock Island; its largest city is neighboring Moline. Rock Island County is one of the four counties that make up the Davenport–Moline–Rock Island, IA–IL Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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