
Dwayne Leftridge was born in Illinois on the Mississippi River, in an area that had a cluster of small towns, known as the quad Cities; the chief ones being Rock Island, where he was born in ST. Anthony's Hospital, Moline, East Moline and Davenport, Iowa on the other side of the mississippi, directly across the river from Rock Island. With Moline being the home of John Deere, the inventor of the steel plow, the region was once a thriving tractor capital but since the 1980's [read more...]