Articles Tagged: Think Iowa City

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From Japanese lunch sets and swordfish to grape cocktails and pappardelle, there’s no shortage of delights in this year’s specials for Think Iowa City Restaurant Week.

Travel-generated expenditures in Linn County totaled $730.5 million, an increase of 5.5 percent over 2022. In Johnson County, visitors spent a total of $683.8 million, a 5.6 percent increase, a study found.

A regional delegation of business and community leaders went to Washington, D.C., to advocate and promote our region and the communities within.

During the first Herky on Parade in 2004, Archie wasn’t yet born. For the second in 2014, he was just a toddler — but still has some memories. And for the third iteration, Archie grabbed a paint brush.

Using military-style code words like Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, and Foxtrot for team names -- each group was assigned one yellow bin of drills and screws, along with a list of locations and instructions, aimed at executing the group’s larger mission: to distribute and install 100 6-foot-tall Herky statues across nearly as many locations in a 10-mile radius under the cover of night.

Get a close-up look at some of the 100 fiberglass Herky statues that were installed at locations throughout Iowa City, Coralville, North Liberty, Tiffin and Solon on Tuesday night.

The 20th anniversary of Herky on Parade features 100 statues, including a handful grouped into a “G.O.A.T series” – like one in a “22” jersey named “From the Logo Herky” and another wearing Rudis shoes labeled “Yoda.”

See our thoughts on what’s hot and what’s not during this week’s Restaurant Week in Coralville, Iowa City, North Liberty and Solon.

The Iowa Tourism Office awarded almost $300,000 in grants Tuesday to organizations throughout the state, including the Indian Creek Nature Center in Cedar Rapids and Think Iowa City.

It wasn’t just Iranian wrestlers and protesters exemplifying the World Cup's global significance. It was the gold medal Ukraine’s women took home to a nation still under Russian siege. And it was the visit a Japanese university president paid Monday to University of Iowa President Barbara Wilson.

The cities of Coralville and Iowa City, in cooperation with Johnson County, are preparing a nearly $6 million application to the state’s Destination Iowa program. The joint application seeks funding for various projects improving water and trail access in the county.

Iowa City is working with Think Iowa City to spur tourism and economic activity in the city. Think Iowa City will administer a grant program to help fund conferences, tournaments and special events.