In Moline, Illinois you’ll become part of the Moline way: Improving everyday! If this slogan makes you want to click the “back” button on your server, you might want to reconsider, considering all the considerations there are to consider when considering the great city of Moline!

In 1843, still unnamed, the town was platted by David B. Sears, Spencer, White, Joel and Huntington Wells, Charles Atkinson, and Nathan Bass. The county surveyor, P.H. Ogilvie, wrote "Hesperia" on one plat and "Moline" on the other. Asked the meaning of the names, he said that the first meant "Star of the West" ad the second was an adaptation of the French word for "mill town." Charles Atkinson is then supposed to have said, "Moline, let it be called." This plat, acknowledged on June 6, 1843, before Justice of the Peace Nathanial Belcher, was approved the same day by the county commissioners, but the records were destroyed by fire, so Moline wasn't legally incorporated until the spring of 1848.

n 1872, Moline was incorporated as a city. The first Mayor, Daniel L. Wheelock, was elected.

Today, Moline and surrounding areas employ more than 30,000 people in manufacturing. There are 112 manufacturing establishments in Moline, including farm equipment, elevators and escalators, machine tools, heavy machinery, foundry equipment, metal products and more. John Deere employs more than 7,000 people in the area making Moline one of the great agricultural centers in the Union!