History

At a time when Blacks were not welcome in Midwest hotels, James Weldon Johnson was welcomed into the Van Vechten Shaffer home in Cedar Rapids.

Thanks to a $70,000 matching grant, the church will soon undergo a large-scale restoration project that will allow its food pantry to expand.

The owner of a Cedar Rapids office supply store saved a steam locomotive from the scrap yard and brought it to Cedar Rapids.

Twenty years after a fire destroyed the dome of the University of Iowa’s Old Capitol, the UI now is preparing to redo “failing” gilding on the dome at an estimated cost of $480,000.

Cedar Rapids furriers offered cold storage during the summer

Famous for his cloud paintings, he moved indoors

The homicide case will be closed with no prosecution because suspect George Smith died in 2013 at the age of 94, police said.

The Capitol Theater opened in 1928, but six months later the lettering on its sign was changed to Paramount.