A University of Illinois campus on the Moline riverfront? Moline city officials have been pursing that possibility for months
MOLINE â For at least six months, officials in Moline have been pursuing the possibility of bringing a University of Illinois school of engineering to riverfront land that will become available as the old I-74 bridge is demolished. The city already has a college of engineering just a mile away â at Western Illinois University's Quad-Cities riverfront campus. But Mayor Stephanie Acri recently accused WIU officials of "broken promises," including low enrollment numbers that "have hurt Moline's economy." Early last month, Acri said she spoke with Guiyou Huang, the new president of WIU ...
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