Rock Island, Illinois Rock Island, Illinois 15, statue of Black Hawk, Rock Island Centennial Bridge, Quad City Botanical Center, replica of a Fort Armstrong blockhouse.
15, statue of Black Hawk, Rock Island Centennial Bridge, Quad City Botanical Center, replica of a Fort Armstrong blockhouse.
Motto: Rock Solid, Rock Island County Rock Island County Rock Island is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. The initial Rock Island, from which the town/city name is derived, is the biggest island on the Mississippi River.
The Quad Cities has a populace of about 380,000. The town/city is home to Rock Island Arsenal, the biggest government-owned weapons manufacturing arsenal in the US, which employs 6,000 citizens . There's a wide range of housing available in Rock Island including historic homes, new downtown condos, new assembly in the heart of the city, and wooded retreats.
The Rock Island-Milan School District, Rockridge School District (southwest portion of city) along with private schools, serve the city.
The District (Downtown Rock Island) has art arcades and theaters, eveningclubs and coffee shops, and restaurants of all flavors.
In 2015 Rock Island was ranked the 32nd "Best Small City" in the nation based on economic health, affordability, and character of life. Rock Island made the list of the nations "25 Most Affordable Housing Markets", a ranking released by 24/7 Wall Street.
Rock Island in 1865.
Their primary village of Saukenuk was positioned on the south side of Rock Island, along the Rock River.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad was established here in 1851.
It was informally known as the Rock Island Line.
As part of later nineteenth-century development, two first-class hotels: the Harper House (opened in February 1871) and the Rock Island House were assembled in town. Rock Island Arsenal has produced military equipment and ordnance for the U.S.
Due to its geography, Rock Island has a rich history of bridge building, including the first barns bridge athwart the Mississippi (now gone), an unusual two-track barns bridge, and the biggest roller dam in the world.
The first barns bridge athwart the Mississippi River was assembled between Arsenal Island and Davenport in 1856.
Louis and its steamboats against Chicago and its barns s. Two weeks after the bridge opened, the steamboat Effie Afton collided with the bridge, caught fire, and damaged the bridge. The owner of the Effie Afton sued the bridge business for damages, and Abraham Lincoln was one of the lawyers who defended the barns . This test case was appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of the barns in 1872. Although the initial bridge is long gone, a monument exists on Arsenal Island marking the Illinois side.
The Rock Island Line shipped goods from west of the Mississippi, athwart the bridge at Rock Island, east to Chicago.
Three other bridges span the river between Rock Island and Davenport.
On the south side of the city, overlooked by the Black Hawk State Historic Site, is a crossing of the Rock River to Milan, Illinois.
Sears, who previously assembled the Sears Dam between Arsenal Island and Moline.) In 2007 a new bridge was instead of between 3rd Street Moline/southeast Rock Island and Milan.
Rock Island is positioned at 41 29 21 N 90 34 23 W (41.489083, -90.573154). According to the 2010 census, Rock Island has a total region of 17.872 square miles (46.29 km2), of which 16.85 square miles (43.64 km2) (or 94.28%) is territory and 1.022 square miles (2.65 km2) (or 5.72%) is water. 1 Rock Island Arsenal 8,500 4 County of Rock Island 510 Construction will begin in April 2017 for a new Rock Island County courthouse.
The majority of the town/city is served by the Rock Island/Milan School District with portions of the southwest region falling under the Rockridge School District.
Several private schools also serve Rock Island including Jordan Catholic Elementary School and Alleman Catholic High School.
Rock Island High School Rock Island Public Library Rock Island Arsenal is a National Historic Landmark Rock Island, Illinois is the site of the Quad City Hindu Temple, a Hindu shrine dedicated chiefly to the deity Venkateswara.
The first football game in what was to turn into the National Football League was played at Rock Island's Douglas Field in September, 1920.
It was hosted by the Rock Island Independents(1907-1926), who were a charter NFL charter in 1920. The Rock Island Islanders were a minor league baseball team that played for 37 seasons between 1901 and 1948.
The Rock Island Legion Post 200 baseball team won the 4th State Championship in its history in 2011 in Galesburg, Illinois.
Karters flock to Rock Island every year for the prestigious Rock Island Grand Prix on Labor Day weekend, which attracts competitors from athwart the United States and the world.
With exception to 1997, when the annual race was canceled due to legal liability issues, the Rock Island Grand Prix has been held every year since 1994.
Rock Island High School has won state championships in basketball, girls and boys track, and wrestling.
Rock Island Public Schools Stadium has an artificial surface and has a seating capacity of over 15,000.
Rock Island is the locale of tv station WHBF-TV.
(The other is WOC-TV on the Iowa side of the river.) Rock Island was also the longtime former home of WHBF-TV's former sister airways broadcasts, WHBF and WHBF-FM, although it does remain the licensed town/city of those stations.
Also, National Public Radio member station WVIK is licensed to and positioned in Rock Island on the ground of Augustana College, and WGVV-LP, which is also licensed to the town/city of Rock Island.
Rock Island is the home base for NOAA Weather Radio WXJ-73, the Quad Cities' region NWR station, programmed by the National Weather Service in Davenport.
Rock Island Line (song) was first recorded in 1934.
The Rock Island Trail, starring Forrest Tucker, was a Republic Studios manufacturing (1950) related to the building of the Rock Island Railroad athwart the Mississippi River. It suggests a Rock Island train's crossing from Rock Island to Davenport, Iowa, known as "River City".
Rock Island is one of the markers of the outer edge of the range of Project X in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged.
Rock Island is mentioned a several times in Jack Kerouac's book On the Road.
Sal (Jack Kerouac) says that in Rock Island, "for the first time in my life that I saw my beloved Mississippi River dry in the summer haze." In the 1977 episode "Breaker, Breaker" of Good Times, where Nathan Bookman hides a CB radio in the Evan's apartment, amid a scene where Willona Woods gets on the CB with a man who says he's coming back into Chicago from "that Rock Island town" and wanted to know if she and Millicent "Penny" Gordon Woods could meet up.
Reilly, says that they are staying in Rock Island, Illinois.
Part of the film Road to Perdition (2002) takes place in Rock Island.
Indeed, the first track of the soundtrack is entitled Rock Island.
The movie was based on the 1998 graphic novel, which was in turn based on the life of Rock Island gangster John Looney.
Bush, resided in Rock Island.
In the 2001 film, America's Sweethearts, Larry King takes a call from a viewer in Rock Island, Illinois.
Rock Island Line is the title of a 1975 novel by David Rhodes (author) Lane Evans, former United States Congressman (Illinois 17th District); born in Rock Island Hall, photojournalist; born in Rock Island Helen Mack, screen and stage actress; born in Rock Island Elisabeth Maurus (aka Lissie), folk-rock singer and songwriter; born in Rock Island Lefty Taber, pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies; born in Rock Island Mayor of Rock Island, Illinois Rock Island Independents former NFL charter Daytrotter National Music Website Based in Rock Island "Rock Island Arsenal".
Diane Oestreich, "Harper House Hotel, 2nd Avenue and 19th Street", 2002, Rock Island Preservation.
"Construction on new Rock Island County courthouse to begin in April".
Joni Conrad, "The Quad-City Hindu Temple provides a place to share religious, cultural and culinary experiences", Rock Island News, no byline, accessed Dec.
Rock Island Trail at IMDB.
"Green Bay Packers Find Players and Wins in Rock Island Illinois | Packers 101".
"Former pro football player says Rock Island will always be home".
"Rock Island rated 3rd most exciting town/city in Illinois by nationwide real estate firm".
D., The Early Day of Rock Island and Davenport The Lakeside Press, 1942 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rock Island, Illinois.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Rock Island.
QCOnline.com Rock Island Argus/Moline Dispatch Newspaper Municipalities and communities of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States
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