Quad Citian

noun

A resident of the Quad Cities.

Meanings

nounQuad Citian (plural Quad Citians)

plural Quad Citians · alternative Quad-Citian

  1. A resident of the Quad Cities.

    Today, Fairmount Cemetery is the final resting place of thousands of Quad Citians who built their lives in the region.

    2021, Michael McCarty, John Brassard Jr., Eerie Quad Cities, The History Press, →ISBN, page 38
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    Finally, as a Quad Citian, I would like to stress that, while the compact is designed to produce efficiencies in the delivery of a limited number of public services, it symbolizes more than dollars and cents concerns.

    1990 February 7, Jim Leach, quotee, Quad Cities Interstate Metropolitan Authority Compact: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3118 and S. 1485 (Serial No. 53), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 20

    The Draught House and Night People together “provided a place for young Quad Citians to go, and created a sort of unifying force of young people that reflected the nation's love affair with rock ’n roll, especially during a time of tremendous conflict for young Americans such as the Vietnam War,” the paper said.

    2016, Jonathan Turner, A Brief History of Bucktown: Davenport’s Infamous District Transformed, The History Press, →ISBN, page 83

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