Presidential schedule announced for Wednesday


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Originally Posted Online: Aug. 16, 2011, 7:02 pm
Last Updated: Aug. 16, 2011, 7:13 pm
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Wednesday morning: President Barack Obama will leave downtown Davenport in his jet-black motorcoach to embark on the final leg of his three-day economic tour of the rural Midwest.

11:30 a.m.: The president will conduct a town meeting at Wyfells Hybrids Inc.,740 E. Henry St., Atkinson, about 30 miles east of the Quad-Cities off Interstate 80. Three-hundred tickets to this public event were handed out Monday on a first-come, first-served basis.

3:30 p.m.: The president conducts a town meeting at Country Corner, two miles north of Alpha on U.S. 150 (about 25 miles south of the Quad-Cities). The invitation-only event will be attended by 300 people, including Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn.

6:45 p.m.: After traveling by bus from Alpha to Air National Guard Base in Peoria, the president will depart for Washington, D.C., aboard Air Force One.






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