Quad Cities

the Quad Cities sg or pl (attributive Quad City or Quad-City)

1. A region of cities (originally four) 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.
   • 1959, Civil Aeronautics Board Reports, volume 28, page 799:

     The total population of the Quad Cities in 1950 was 184,493 while the metropolitan area population was 234,256.

   • 2002 May 20, Jodi Wilgoren, “Midwest Towns Feel Gambling Is a Sure Thing”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015:

     Before casinos, the Quad Cities "was just a river stop on I-80 -⁠- a lot of people would stop and say, 'Gee, is that the Mississippi River Mark Twain wrote about?' " said Bernie Goldstein, a a ^[sic] Bettendorf scrap-metal magnate who turned the first riverboat into the 14-casino Isle of Capri chain.

   • 2013, Aleatha Romig, Convicted, →ISBN:

     The rest of the afternoon was spent back in front of the fire, discussing art and upcoming events in the Quad Cities.

   • 2017 October 13, Peter Kujawinski, “Along the Mississippi”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 October 2017:

     We could have stayed there for a while, but the Quad Cities were only 160 miles west of Chicago, and we had a lot more of the Mississippi River to see.

   • 2018, Margaret Littman, Moon Nashville to New Orleans Road Trip: Natchez Trace Parkway, Memphis, Tupelo, Mississippi Blues Trail, Avalon Travel, →ISBN:

     Don’t forget to get gas in the Quad Cities before heading back to the Trace.

• Quad Cities on Wikipedia.Wikipedia