I recently received an email from a woman living in Wisconsin who comes from a family of self-described “tractor nuts.” “My brothers are tractor nuts, my dad was a tractor nut, my husband is a tractor ...

State and local officials on Wednesday announced the reactivization of the most visible symbol of industrial decline in western Illinois-Navistar`s Farmall plant in downtown Rock Island. The ...

ROCK ISLAND — The father of an Augustana College student was lunching at Arthur's Garden Deli in Rock Island, looking at the big framed photo above the beverage counter. It's a photo of the last ...

Press release submitted by the Moline Preservation Society. Legacy of Farmall presented by Dennis Moran will be the next Moline Preservation Society program, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, at Butterworth ...

It could be an unusual job considering the setting: a factory that produced tractors. While others hammered away, creating massive farm machines at Rock Island's old Farmall plant, Mary Alice Ramsey ...