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 ...

A free program on the legacy of the former Farmall Plant in Rock Island will be given at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, at Butterworth Center, 1105 8th St., Moline. For decades, Farmall Works was a ...

The letters and calls were like a eulogy after the Quad-City Times ran a story Jan. 7 on the wrecking of the vast International Harvester Farmall Works, which was the world’s biggest tractor factory.

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 ...

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 ...

I had the privilege of knowing both Tom and Bill Getz in the early 70s. They, of course, owned Moline Forge and I was employed at Farmall Plant. I had dealings with both Tom and Bill and they were ...