Rocky, Legislator argues Chicago Moline sweep should be its own state A8 doubleheaders B1 Profit from your ride with car-sharing B8 MOLINE, ILLINOIS Sunday, April 14, 2019 | QCOnline.com | $4.00 BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE ZOO HISPANIC CHAMBER GALA ‘We want the American dream’ Resiliency marks theme of Q-C event THOMAS GEYER
[email protected] When Mark Madrid remem- bered the last time he attended the Greater Quad-City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce gala, it was at a spot in Moline where people stood in line at a buffet. It was nice, and it was a begin- ning. But over the years things changed, and on Saturday, at the 10th annual gala where the theme was “A Decade of Resilience,” Madrid found the event in the Waterfront Convention Center in Bettendorf, “On the main stage,” he said, not controlling the excitement in his voice. Speaking to the media before the event began Madrid said re- silience was to be the focus of his speech to the audience that See GALA, Page A9 House Dem, KEVIN E. SCHMIDT photos /
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