Welcome to bituminous insurance.

Welcome to the tar-like black & sticky heart of gooey downtown Rock Island, Illinois, where your every footstep feels like a big bite of bitumen. I've heard people talk about insurance cos. as being scammy to their very cores!, as having scams for souls, but maybe Bituminous Ins is different from the others.

 

The thirteen stars of the almost-circle appear to represent an abstraction of a profile of a human head ingesting bituminous, but I do not understand the meaning of the partial eclipse of the light-blue rectangle to its left.

 

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In downtown Rock Island, Illinois, on April 12th, 2010, on the east side of 17th Street, north of 4th Avenue.

 

The company changed its name to BITCO Insurance Companies in 2014, and moved its headquarters from Rock Island to Davenport in 2016.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Rock Island (7014353)

• Rock Island (county) (2000528)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• beds (site elements) (300239937)

• bituminous coal (300015143)

• central business districts (300000868)

• circular (shape) (300263827)

• corporate headquarters (built works) (300132690)

• freestanding walls (300078898)

• insurance (300055719)

• logotypes (300224774)

• parking lots (300007826)

• shop signs (300211862)

• stars (motifs) (300009811)

• telecommunications towers (300164023)

 

Wikidata items:

• 12 April 2010 (Q22664008)

• April 12 (Q2499)

• April 2010 (Q242919)

• Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area (Q7268261)

• insurance company (Q2143354)

• Quad Cities (Q1660598)

• Treaty of St. Louis (1804) (Q28433157)

• Treaty of St. Louis (1816) (Q28433158)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Business names (sh85018315)

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