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The Busenbark Tavern sustained an estimated $40,000 in damage, which equates to about $482,000 in today’s dollars.

Autograph, known for weaving humor into their metal performances, played for an audience of roughly 700 that night.

The attendees to the 1934 show enjoyed not just dressing in the styles of the 1890s, but also participating in some of the activities of the era.

While Percy Heavythinker never walked the halls of McKinley, his legend did.

Theodore Stark & Co. built the Churchill Drug Co. Building in Cedar Rapids in 1925, and 100 years later, both the building and the general contractor are still standing.

In December 1954, The Footlighters opened a production of “Gigi” in Cedar Rapids.

Created by the team at Hubbard Ice, each Popsicle weighed about 400 pounds.

Across the nation, newspapers were shifting to morning delivery to stay competitive.

Modeled after the famed Cheyenne Frontier Days in Wyoming, Cedar Rapids aimed to rival the original.

Mancil “Manny” Root is reported as being anywhere between 9 and 11 at the time of his enlistment in the Union Army.

It opened in 1968, named for Community House director

Grant Wood & friends were seriously kind to lecturers in Iowa City

YWCA, Parson’s event attracted elite runners, crowds in Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids mansion’s owner hanged himself in attic in 1919

Joey O. had 40-year career as a trick golfer