I get annoyed with a newspaper site, in this case the Quad-Cities Dispatch-Argus (serving the Quad-Cities area) where the site assumes they are so well known that they don't have to give any indication of their location. To all outsiders one gets the impression that they are located next to Bumfuk in the state of Flyover.Resort to google and then Wikipedia and one discovers:
The Quad Cities is a group of five cities straddling the Mississippi River on the Iowa-Illinois boundary.