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The Rock Island Argus
''The Dispatch–Argus'' is a daily morning newspaper in Davenport, Iowa, and circulated primarily throughout the Illinois side of the Quad Cities — Moline, East Moline, Rock Island, Illinois, Rock Island and Rock Island County, Illinois, Rock Island County, but also for sale in retail establishments on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities — Davenport, Iowa, Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, Bettendorf. ''The Dispatch'' is circulated in and around Moline while ''The Rock Island Argus'' is circulated in and around that city. The two are essentially the same newspaper, only with different front covers. They have a combined circulation of about 25,000. The newspapers were owned by the Small Newspaper Group, located in Kankakee, Illinois, until 2017, when Davenport-based Lee Enterprises bought the paper and its assets. History ''Rock Island Argus'' The ''Argus'', founded in Rock Island, is one of Illinois' oldest continuously published newspapers. It can trace its origin to 1851 with ...
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Daily Newspaper
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WHBF-TV
WHBF-TV (channel 4) is a television station licensed to Rock Island, Illinois, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Quad Cities area. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Burlington, Iowa–licensed CW owned-and-operated station KGCW (channel 26); Nexstar also provides certain services to Davenport, Iowa–licensed Fox affiliate KLJB (channel 18) under a shared services agreement (SSA) owner Mission Broadcasting. The three stations share studios in the Telco Building on 18th Street in downtown Rock Island; WHBF-TV's transmitter is located in Bettendorf, Iowa. History Early history WHBF-TV began broadcasting on July 1, 1950, making it the fifth-oldest television station in Illinois and the oldest outside Chicago. The station was originally owned by the Potter family, publishers of the '' Rock Island Argus'', alongside WHBF radio (1270 AM, later WKBF, now defunct) and 98.9 FM (now WLKU). WHBF-TV has served as a CBS affiliate since its launch, tho ...
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Moline, Illinois
Moline ( ) is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. With a population of 42,985 in the 2020 census, it is the largest city in Rock Island County and the List of municipalities in Illinois, ninth-most populous in Illinois outside the Chicago metropolitan area. Moline is one of the Quad Cities at the confluence of the Rock River (Mississippi River tributary), Rock and Mississippi River, Mississippi rivers, along with neighboring East Moline, Illinois, East Moline and Rock Island, Illinois, Rock Island in Illinois and the cities of Davenport, Iowa, Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, Bettendorf in Iowa. The Quad Cities metropolitan area had a population of approximately 380,000 as of 2023. Moline was established in 1843. The name derives from the French ''moulin'' meaning "mill [town]". The John Deere World Headquarters, corporate headquarters of Deere & Company is located in Moline, as was Montgomery Elevator; its acquirer Kone has its U.S. division headquartered in Mol ...
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The Small Newspaper Group
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ...
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Newspapers Published In The Quad Cities
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports, art, and science. They often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th centu ...
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Scott County, Iowa
Scott County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 174,669, making it the third-most populous county in Iowa. The county seat is Davenport, Iowa, Davenport. Scott County is included in the Davenport–Moline, Illinois, Moline-Rock Island, Illinois, Rock Island, IA–Illinois, IL Quad Cities Metropolitan Area, Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The first American settlement in the area now known as Scott County was Clark's Ferry or Clark's Landing (now Buffalo, Iowa, Buffalo) in 1833. Other early towns included Davenport (now the county seat and largest city) and Rockingham Township, Scott County, Iowa, the town of Rockingham (which ceased to exist in 1847). The area was fully surveyed in 1837, and the county was established by the Wisconsin Territory, Wisconsin territorial legislature in that same year. Scott County is named for General Winfield Scott, who was the presidi ...
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Total Market Coverage
A total market coverage, or TMC, is a piece of advertising that reaches all households in a market. Traditionally in most of North America newspapers provided total market coverage, as almost all households would subscribe to the main local paper. As subscription rates have fallen total market coverage products have emerged as a separate project, sometimes administered by newspapers, and sometimes separate businesses known as pennysavers or shoppers.Joseph Turow. ''Media Today: 5th Edition.'' Routledge, Oct 31, 2013 pg. 237 Today many newspapers will distribute a supplement to free of charge to all households in the paper's market or a specific portion or portions of the market. Total Market Coverage products are meant to attract readers to subscribe or purchase copies of the main newspaper and also provide an additional outlet for advertisers. First appeared with the Dallas Morning News after long time employee Donald Ray Balser came up with the concept and led a large sales tea ...
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Muscatine Journal
The ''Muscatine Journal'' serves 8,000 adult readers in Muscatine and Louisa counties, in Iowa, United States, and is delivered to nearly 3,500 homes, Monday through Saturday. ''Hometown Extra'', its sister shopper publication, is delivered every Wednesday to nearly 13.000 households. Both publications are part of Lee Enterprises, which is located in Davenport, Iowa. The ''Muscatine Journal'' also publishes news daily on their website. History The ''Muscatine Journal'' traces its history to October 27, 1840, when the first issue of the weekly ''Bloomington Herald'' was released. On June 7, 1849, the town's name was officially changed from Bloomington to Muscatine, and the newspaper then became the ''Muscatine Journal''. The late John Mahin played the most significant role in the newspaper's early history and headed the ''Journal'' for more than a half-century. John Mahin was apprenticed by his father in 1847, at the age of 13, to the owners of what was then still the ''Bloomi ...
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Editorial Voice
An editorial, or leading article (UK) or leader (UK), is an article or any other written document, often unsigned, written by the senior editorial people or publisher of a newspaper or magazine, that expresses the publication's opinion about a particular topic or issue. Australian and major United States newspapers, such as ''The New York Times'' and ''The Boston Globe'', often classify editorials under the heading "opinion". Examples Illustrated editorials may appear in the form of editorial cartoons. Typically, a newspaper's editorial board evaluates which issues are important for their readership to know the newspaper's opinion on. Editorials are typically published on a dedicated page, called the editorial page, which often features letters to the editor from members of the public; the page opposite this page is called the op-ed page and frequently contains opinion pieces (hence the name think pieces) by writers not directly affiliated with the publication. However, a ne ...
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Toulon, Illinois
Toulon is a city and the county seat of Stark County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,292 at the 2010 census. Toulon is part of the Peoria, Illinois Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the northwestern terminus of the Rock Island Trail State Park. Geography Toulon is located at (41.094495, -89.862218). According to the 2010 census, Toulon has a total area of , all land. Schools Stark County High School and Stark County Junior High are located in Toulon. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,400 people, 555 households, and 355 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 601 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 98.64% White, 0.21% African American, 0.50% Native American, 0.07% Asian, 0.07% from other races, and 0.50% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.43% of the population. There were 555 households, out of which 29.7% had children under the age of ...
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University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign University Library
The University Library at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign comprises a network of physical and digital libraries. It provides resources and services to the university's students, faculty, staff, and the broader academic community. History of the University Library The University Library came into being before the university with which it is affiliated, as the university board considered it essential that students and faculty would have books waiting to greet them when the university opened its doors. However, this earliest collection was very small and did not yet have its own library building. As a result, the University Library has moved as it has grown throughout its history, a trend that continues to this day. While its collections had previously resided elsewhere, Altgeld Hall (known as Library Hall at the time) was the first building built specifically to house the university's library. Today, Altgeld Hall is home to the university's Math Department; the Univers ...
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