Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa Aerial view of Iowa City Aerial view of Iowa City Official seal of Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City, Iowa is positioned in the US Iowa City, Iowa - Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City is a town/city in Johnson County, Iowa, United States.
Enumeration Bureau estimated the 2015 populace at 74,220, making it the state's fifth-largest city. Iowa City is the governmental center of county of Johnson County and home to the University of Iowa.
Iowa City is the principal town/city of the Iowa City Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses Johnson County and Washington County and has a populace of over 164,000.
Iowa City was the second capital of the Iowa Territory and the first capital town/city of the State of Iowa.
The University of Iowa Art Museum and Plum Grove, the home of the first Governor of Iowa, are also tourist attractions.
In 2008, Forbes periodical titled Iowa City the second-best small urbane region for doing company in the United States. Iowa City was created by an act of Legislative Assembly of the Iowa Territory on January 21, 1839, fulfilling the desire of Governor Robert Lucas to move the capital out of Burlington and closer to the center of the territory.
A bird's-eye view map of Iowa City about 1868 Building in which the Iowa Territorial Legislature first met in Iowa City.
Commissioners Chauncey Swan and John Ronalds met on May 1 in the small settlement of Napoleon, south of present-day Iowa City, to select a site for the new capital city.
The following day the commissioners chose a site on bluffs above the Iowa River north of Napoleon, placed a stake in the center of the proposed site and began planning the new capital city.
"Iowa City is positioned on a section of territory laying in the form of an amphitheater.
While Iowa City was chose as the territorial capital in 1839, it did not officially turn into the capital town/city until 1841; after assembly on the capitol building had begun.
He quit the Iowa universal after five months, claiming his design was not followed, but the resemblance to the Illinois capitol suggests he firmly influenced the final Iowa design.
The cornerstone of the Old Capitol Building was laid in Iowa City on July 4, 1840.
Iowa City served as the third and last territorial capital of Iowa, and the last four territorial legislatures met at the Old Capitol Building until December 28, 1846, when Iowa was admitted into the United States as the 29th state of the union.
Iowa City was declared the state capital of Iowa, and the government convened in the Old Capitol Building. Oakland Cemetery was deeded to "the citizens of Iowa City" by the Iowa territorial council on February 13, 1843.
Since its establishment, the cemetery has turn into the final resting place of many men and women meaningful in the history of Iowa, of Iowa City and the University of Iowa.
Hancher (1940 64); Cordelia Swan, daughter of one of the three commissioners who chose the site for Iowa City and the new territorial capitol; and Irving B.
Weber (1900-1997), noted Iowa City historian.
Iowa City is also home to Mercy Hospital, a pre-eminent provider of healthcare to the region.
Anti-war protests were not new to Iowa City or to elsewhere in Iowa; protests had been occurring throughout the 1960s.
In his autobiography, My Iowa Journey: The Life Story of the University of Iowa's First African American Professor, Philip Hubbard (University Vice-Provost in 1970) gives an administrator's perspective of all the protests of the 1960s.
On the evening of April 13, 2006, a confirmed EF2 tornado hit Iowa City, causing harsh property damage and displacing many from their homes, including many University of Iowa students.
No serious injuries were reported in the Iowa City area.
Cleanup accomplishments were under way almost immediately as small-town law enforcement, volunteer workers from all over the state, and Iowa City inhabitants and college students worked together to restore the city.
The total cost of damage was estimated at around $12 million--$4 million of which was attributed to Iowa City and Johnson County Property. A small-town journal reported on June 11, 2008, that water exceeded the emergency spillway at the Coralville Reservoir outside of Iowa City. As a result, the City of Iowa City and the University of Iowa were seriously affected by unprecedented flooding of the Iowa River, which caused widespread property damage and forced evacuations in large sections of the city.
On Friday, June 13, college employees were encouraged to stay home, and travel was firmly discouraged in Iowa City; one town/city statement advised, "If you live in east Iowa City, stay in east Iowa City; if you live in west Iowa City, stay in west Iowa City." On Saturday, June 14, officials at the University of Iowa began to power down the University's major power generating plant along the Iowa River to prevent structural damage.
Prior to the flood, a University of Iowa assembly site was effectively damming the river just north of the bridge at Iowa Avenue and south of the train bridge crossing the river adjoining to the Iowa Memorial Union.
This is a fact that many of Iowa City's riverside inhabitants are aware of, especially those living along Normandy Drive adjoining to City Park.
Iowa City is positioned along the Iowa River.
Climate data for Iowa City, Iowa Iowa City is generally known as a college town.
Iowa City was ranked as the 10th best town/city in America for singles in 2012 by Kiplinger. The Iowa City Metropolitan Travel Destination consists of Johnson and Washington counties in Iowa; Washington County was added to the MSA after the 2000 census.
Iowa City is bordered by Coralville and North Liberty.
University Heights is completely contained inside the boundaries of Iowa City, near Kinnick Stadium.
Iowa City is one of the two namesakes of the "Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Technology Corridor", which includes the above communities plus Linn, Benton, and Jones counties.
Iowa City is home to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics (UIHC), the state's only elected tertiary care medical center.
The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center in Iowa City is an NCI-designated Cancer Center, one of severaler than 60 in the country. ACT college testing services is headquartered in Iowa City.
In 2004, Forbes periodical titled Iowa City the third Best Small Metropolitan Area in the United States. In June 2006, Kiplinger's Personal Finance rated Iowa City #10 on its list of the Top 50 Smart Places to Live. According to Iowa City's 2014 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 1 University of Iowa and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics 24,627 2 Iowa City Community School District 1,600 4 Iowa City VA Medical Center 1,241 8 City of Iowa City 986 All but one of the primary rooms were restored to their appearance when Iowa City was the state capital.
The Iowa Avenue Literary Walk, a series of bronze relief panels that feature authors' words as well as attribution, is a tribute to the city's rich literary history.
In November 2008, UNESCO designated Iowa City as the world's third City of Literature, making it a part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network.
Utne Reader ranked Iowa City eighth in its 1997 survey of "America's 10 Most Enlightened Towns". The February 2010 copy of The Advocate periodical had an article titled "Gayest Cities in America" which ranked Iowa City third in a list of 15 metros/cities with an abundance of gay-friendly (male) resources, behind Atlanta, Georgia, and Burlington, Vermont. The article was reported and discussed in The Daily Iowan. Iowa City has a range of cultural affairs.
Authors; the nation's dominant Non-Fiction Writing Program; the Iowa Playwrights' Workshop; the Iowa Summer Writing Festival; and the International Writing Program, a unique residency program that has hosted writers from more than 120 countries.
Iowa City also sponsors a range of affairs in the Summer of the Arts program.
The Iowa City Book Festival began as an annual summer event in 2009 sponsored by the University of Iowa Libraries and in 2013 it was moved to October when management was handed off to the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature. It features readings from prominent authors and literature themed affairs.
The Iowa Biennial Exhibition [TIBE] began in 2004 as an global survey of intact miniature printmaking held its initial exhibition at the University of Iowa.
The 2006 exhibition, received a 2007 "ICKY" award nomination in Visual Arts Programming from the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance for its exhibition at the University of Iowa's Project Art Gallery. Many Landlocked Film Festival affairs are held at the historic Iowa City Englert Theatre.
This facility was badly damaged amid the Iowa flood of 2008 and the facility has been rebuilt farther uphill, away from the Iowa River and reopened in Fall of 2016.
Ped Mall (Iowa City) City Plaza (commonly called the Pedestrian Mall or simply Ped Mall) serves as a gathering place for students, locals, and the homeless, and draws large crowds for its summertime affairs such as the Friday Night Concert Series and the annual Iowa City Jazz Festival and Iowa City Arts Festival.
The Ped Mall region contains restaurants, bars, retail, hotels, and the Iowa City Public Library.
The Iowa City Community School District operates enhance schools in Iowa City.
Iowa City High School and Iowa City West High School are the two enhance high schools.
Iowa City is home to the University of Iowa and a branch of Kirkwood Community College.
The Iowa City Japanese School ( Aiowa Shiti Hoshu Jugyo Ko), a weekend educational program for Japanese nationals, provides Japanese language instruction, holding its classes at Zion Lutheran Church. Iowa City is home of the University of Iowa's athletic teams, known as the Iowa Hawkeyes.
Iowa City's two enhance high schools, City and West, are members of the Mississippi Valley Conference.
The Iowa City Gold Sox were a semi-professional baseball team that called Iowa City home from 1912 through 1913. Napoleon Park is on the very south side of Iowa City along Gilbert Street and hosts many baseball diamonds.
Happy Hollow Park, created in 1945, is in Iowa City's historic North Side precinct at the corner of Brown Street and Governor Street.
Iowa City is governed by an propel town/city council of seven members: four council members at large and three precinct members. The two council members at large who receive the most votes and the three precinct council members serve four-year terms.
As of 2015, Iowa City Council members are: Iowa City City Hall The council is responsible for appointing the town/city manager (as of 2016 Geoff Fruin) who implements the policy decisions of the town/city council, enforces town/city ordinances and appoints town/city officials.
Iowa City is unusual in that it is one of only four metros/cities in Iowa in which the mayor is chosen by the town/city council.
The mayor of Iowa City serves a two-year term and has a vote on council, representing the precinct or at-large position from which he or she was elected.
Two have turn into part of the statewide Iowa Public Radio network: WSUI 910 AM, a National Public Radio partner and originator of some Iowa Public Radio news and talk programming; and KSUI 91.7 FM, which broadcasts classical music and concerts by Iowa classical orchestras, opera companies, and other artists, as well as interviews.
Clear Channel Communications owns two of the Iowa City area's commercial airways broadcasts: KXIC 800 AM, a news/talk station, and KKRQ 100.7 FM, a classic modern station. KCJJ 1630 AM is an autonomously-owned, 10,000-watt station that broadcasts a mixture of talk radio and Hot AC music programming along with region high school football and basketball games and NASCAR racing.
Radio signals from other cities, including Cedar Rapids and the Quad Cities, also reach the Iowa City area. Iowa City and Johnson County are part of the Cedar Rapids-Waterloo-Iowa City-Dubuque media market, which was ranked 87th by Nielsen Media Research for the 2007-2008 TV season. Two tv stations, KIIN channel 12 (PBS) and KWKB channel 20 (CW and My - Network TV), are licensed to Iowa City. KCRG-TV 9, the ABC partner in Cedar Rapids, maintains a news agency at Old Capitol Mall in downtown Iowa City. Mediacom, a small-town cable tv franchisee, provides channel space for seven Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable TV channels in Iowa City: City Channel 4, Infovision (channel 5), the Iowa City Public Library Channel (channel 10), Kirkwood Television Services (channel 11), University of Iowa Television (channel 17), Public Access Television (channel 18), and the Iowa City Community School District's channel 21. The Iowa City Press-Citizen, owned by Gannett, prints six days a week with Gannett's Des Moines Sunday Register standing in as a Sunday edition.
In addition, The Gazette of Cedar Rapids maintains a news agency in Iowa City.
Iowa City Depot Iowa City has a general aviation airport, the Iowa City Municipal Airport, on the south side of the city.
The Eastern Iowa Airport, 20 miles (32 km) to the northwest, serves Iowa City and Cedar Rapids with scheduled passenger flights.
Highway 218 and Iowa Highway 27 (the Avenue of the Saints) are co-signed along a freeway bypassing Iowa City to the west.
Highway 6 and Iowa Highway 1 also run through Iowa City.
Iowa City is served by the freight-only Iowa Interstate Railroad and the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway (CRANDIC).
The historic Iowa City Depot, shown in the picture at left, is no longer in use for stockyards services; it has been modified into a commercial office building.
Iowa City Transit, Coralville Transit, and the University of Iowa's Cambus fitness furnish enhance transportation. Moses Bloom, former mayor of Iowa City and the first Jewish mayor of any primary American town/city Cech, 1989 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry; graduate from Iowa City High School Iris De - Ment, musician, lives in Iowa City Doe, Arizona Territorial jurist, lived in Iowa City Tim Dwight, NFL player with Atlanta Falcons, San Diego Chargers, New England Patriots, New York Jets, and Oakland Raiders; played at Iowa City High School and University of Iowa Kenny Fields, former NBA player, born in Iowa City Olympic gold medalist; NCAA champion from Iowa State University; former head wrestling coach for Iowa Hawkeyes, dominant program to 21 Big Ten Conference championships and 15 nationwide championships; Waterloo native Nate Kaeding (1982 ) NFL kicker for San Diego Chargers; played at Iowa City West High School and University of Iowa Maynard, old-time author, born in Iowa City in 1853 Mary Neuhauser, Mayor of Iowa City, state legislator, and lawyer Louis Cardinals, was born in Iowa City Zach Wahls, a LGBT activist, was raised in Iowa City Wilde, 17th Mayor of San Diego (1917-1921), born in Iowa City on July 16, 1865 Iowa City Public Library Iowa City Community School District Iowa City Police Department "#2 Iowa City IA - Forbes.com".
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