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==Economy== Companies based in Quincy include [[Niemann Foods]], [[Gardner Denver]], Kohl Wholesale and The Knapheide Manufacturing Company. [[GatesAir]] Television and Radio Transmission has a facility in town, as does [[Broadcast Electronics]]. Titan Wheel (Titan International) is also located in Quincy. Blessing Hospital, the Quincy Public Schools and Titan are the top three employers in the area.<ref name="stlouisfed1">{{cite web|last=Tully |first=Jeryldine |url=http://stlouisfed.org/publications/re/articles/?id=1747 |title=A Tale of Two Cities—Hannibal, Mo./Quincy, Ill |publisher=Stlouisfed.org |access-date=March 5, 2014}}</ref> In 1978, Quincy formed the Great River Economic Development Foundation, a private, non-profit organization designed to retain existing businesses and attract new ones to the area. This organization has been instrumental in putting the [[Quincy-Hannibal Area]] on the map as a distinct region in conjunction with the major metropolitan areas nearby such as [[Chicago, IL]], [[St. Louis, MO]], and even [[Kansas City, MO]].<ref name="stlouisfed1"/> As a whole, Quincy falls from average to just above average in several economic categories<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bestplaces.net/economy/city/illinois/quincy |title=Economy in Quincy, Illinois |publisher=Bestplaces.net |access-date=March 5, 2014}}</ref> in comparison to the national averages. The cost of living in Quincy is well below the national average.<ref name="bestplaces1">{{cite web|url=http://www.bestplaces.net/cost_of_living/city/illinois/quincy |title=Cost of Living in Quincy, Illinois |publisher=Bestplaces.net |access-date=March 5, 2014}}</ref> The city is also below the national averages in cost of food, utilities and other miscellaneous costs.<ref name="bestplaces1"/> In the fall of 2010 Quincy was listed as eighth in the top fifteen small cities to raise a family in the United States by Forbes magazine for its commute times, high school graduation rate, median household income, home ownership rate and cost of living. Forbes compared 126 cities with a population under 100,000 and ranked them on these five quality-of-life measures.<ref>[http://www.whig.com/story/news/Forbes-ranking-102710] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030112857/http://www.whig.com/story/news/Forbes-ranking-102710|date=October 30, 2010}}</ref>
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