Iowa City
Americannoun
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His passion for turning mundane public infrastructure into objects of whimsy has landed Bradshaw in legal trouble—and turned him into a folk hero in this western Iowa city of 87,000 where the Big Sioux River flows into the Missouri.
Dan Timmer, who drove down that morning from Iowa City, where he was visiting family, joked he was coming in from the big city to be an agitator.
From Slate
Together, Andrews and Wilson created “Deafman Glance,” a seven-hour “silent opera,” which premiered in 1970 in Iowa City, Iowa.
From Los Angeles Times
There are pockets in Iowa City that are doing really well, but most of Iowa hasn’t bounced back from the 2008 economic crisis.
From Salon
Fortunately for the second-ranked Trojans, their path to the championship game does not include Iowa, which is on the other side of the bracket from the team it defeated by seven points last month in Iowa City.
From Los Angeles Times
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