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Cedar Rapids

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Cedar Rapids

City and administrative headquarters of Linn County, east-central Iowa, on the Cedar River, 170 km/105 mi northeast of Des Moines; population (1994 est) 113,000. It produces communications equipment, construction machinery, and processed foods, and is the hub of the surrounding agricultural region. In 1998 there were 22,000 manufacturing workers in the region. Quaker Oats operates a huge cereal mill here. Noted as a centre of Czech and Slovak migration, the Czech village in the city centre dates from 1906 and is now a tourist attraction.

Cedar Rapids was settled in 1837 and became an important grain and livestock market; it was incorporated as a city in 1856. It is the home of Coe College (1851), Mount Mercy College (1928), and Kirkwood Community College (1966). Cedar Rapids has long marketed itself as the ‘city of five seasons’, time being the fifth season needed to enjoy the other four, and a national survey found it to be the ‘least stressful’ metropolitan area in the US.



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