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Article: Make tracks to Moline's John Deere Pavilion.(Going Places)(Travel Q and A)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- September 26, 2004
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Byline: Madelyn Merwin
Q. I've been a farmer my whole life. For the last couple of years, I've been hearing about a John Deere exhibit that's near the Mississippi River. I would like to see it. Is it open all year long? How would I go about getting some information on it?
A. The exhibit to which you're referring is actually in a complex called John Deere Commons in Moline, Ill., a city that's part of the Quad Cities area on the Mississippi River and world headquarters for the John Deere Co.
John Deere Commons, named for the developer of the first commercially successful self-cleaning steel plow, was opened in 1996 as the centerpiece of Moline's ...