After months of debate, Cedar Rapidians voted to have the city buy and operate the privately owned waterworks company. The proposal followed complaints about water quality and water bills higher than in other Iowa cities.
Cedar Rapids company specialized in printing rare, limited edition books after 1905 founding.
Edgar Bergen dropped into a meeting in Cedar Rapids in1963 and used his hand to demonstrate his ventriloquism talent. Donations spiked 23 percent after his talk.
After owning the one-millionth Thunderbird manufactured by Ford Motor Co. for 36 years, Bob Peterson is donating it to the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, Calif.
After a couple quiet seasons, Iowa’s 2001 Alamo Bowl trip “felt like the Super Bowl for us as Hawkeyes”
When pictures of gingerbread constructions began popping up on Facebook in late November, The Gazette invited readers to send in photos and descriptions of their creations. We think they’ve done a deliciously wonderful job.
Large, animated display contained all the comic strip’s characters
Women’s clothing went through an interesting transition in the 1890s. Big changes took place in how the clothes were made, bought and worn.
Most of us don’t know about the backroom deal that helped secure the interstate’s passage through Cedar Rapids, the alternate routes it could have taken or about the two people who died in the push to open the highway.
Homes and businesses of the Little Mexico neighborhood in Cedar Rapids were razed in the 1960s to build I-380 in Cedar Rapids. Dozens of immigrant families were displaced. The notion of erasing a non-white neighborhood to make way for progress is now seen through a different lens.
Figures still on display in Algona every December
State went slightly bonkers in 1956 after bowl invite
Charles Hollenbeck sold the land -- a popular picnicking spot -- to two men, who created a modern “park-like” cemetery, Cedar Memorial Cemetery.
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