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MOLINE — 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 — 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 and, I informed the president that Moline could not afford any more time to wait. ....

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