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Andalusia is a village on the Mississippi River in Rock Island County, in the Quad Cities region of northwestern Illinois.

Before European settlement, the Andalusia riverfront was a favored hunting area of the Sauk and Meskwaki peoples, and after the Black Hawk War of 1832 Captain Benjamin W. Clark of Virginia built the first log house in the western part of Rock Island County here in 1833.

The settlement was first called Clark's Ferry, then briefly renamed Rockport, before being renamed Andalusia in 1845 - a name suggested by Katherine Buford in honor of the Spanish province of Andalusia.

Clark sold his 160-acre claim in 1836 to investors who platted the village, and Andalusia had its own post office by 1877.

Andalusia was incorporated as a village in 1894.

Andalusia stayed small for decades because of poor roads, and it was only connected to the Quad Cities by a paved road in the 1930s, about the same time electricity arrived.

After World War II Andalusia grew into a bedroom community, climbing from just 265 residents in 1940 to 1,184 people at the 2020 census, spread across roughly 540 households in recent Census Bureau survey estimates.

Children in Andalusia attend schools in the Rockridge Community Unit School District 300.

The village covers only about 1.19 square miles along the Mississippi River bluffs.