Editing Cedar Rapids, Iowa (section)

==Economy==
[[File:Cedar Rapids - Roosevelt.jpg|thumb|upright|The 12-story [[Hotel Roosevelt (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)|Roosevelt Hotel]] was inaugurated in 1927.]]
Cedar Rapids is one of the largest cities in the world for corn processing.  The grain processing industry is Cedar Rapids' most important sector, directly providing 4,000 jobs that pay on average $85,000, and also providing 8,000 indirectly.<ref name="gazette grain">{{cite news|url=http://gazetteonline.com/top-story/2009/11/28/impact-of-grain-processing-industry-runs-deep-but-people-don%e2%80%99t-see-it |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121209003425/http://gazetteonline.com/top-story/2009/11/28/impact-of-grain-processing-industry-runs-deep-but-people-don%E2%80%99t-see-it |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 9, 2012 |title=Impact of grain-processing industry runs deep, but people don't see it |last=Ford |first=George |date=November 28, 2009 |work=[[The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)|The Gazette]] |location=Cedar Rapids |pages=1A |access-date=November 29, 2009}}</ref> [[Fortune 500]] company [[Collins Aerospace]] and trucking company [[CRST]] are based in Cedar Rapids,<ref>{{cite news|author=Fortune.com|title=FORTUNE 500 2009: States: Iowa|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2009/states/IA.html|access-date=June 28, 2009 | work=CNN Money}}</ref> and [[Aegon N.V.|Aegon]] has its United States headquarters there. A large [[Quaker Oats]] mill, one of the four that merged in 1901 to form Quaker Oats, dominates the north side of downtown. Other large companies that have facilities in Cedar Rapids include [[Archer Daniels Midland]], [[Cargill]], [[General Mills]], [[Toyota Financial Services]] and [[Nordstrom]].<ref name="gazette grain"/> [[Newspaperarchive]], based in Cedar Rapids, is the largest newspaper archive in North America with a repository of more than 150 million pages assembled over 250 years; it was taken offline for two days by the 2008 flood.

In February 2025 the city and [[Alliant Energy]] announced that [[Quality Technology Services]] will build a $750 million [[data center]] in Cedar Rapids, the largest economic development in its history, ultimately providing 30 jobs.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2025-02-13 |title=QTS to build data center in Cedar Rapids |url=https://www.kcrg.com/2025/02/13/qts-build-data-center-cedar-rapids/ |access-date=2025-02-15 |language=en}}</ref>

===Top employers===
According to Cedar Rapids' 2023 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cms.revize.com/revize/cedarrapids/document_center/Finance/CAFR/CAFR%20FY%202018.pdf|title=City of Cedar Rapids Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2023|publisher=City Finance Department|date=June 30, 2018|access-date=March 10, 2019}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> the top employers in the area are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! Employees
|-
|1
|[[Collins Aerospace]]
|9,000
|-
|2
| [[St. Luke's Hospital (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)|St. Luke's Hospital]]
|2,979
|-
|3
| [[Cedar Rapids Community School District]]
|2,879
|-
|4
| [[Transamerica Corporation|Transamerica]]
|2,600
|-
|5
| [[Hy-Vee]]
|2,356
|-
|6
| [[Nordstrom|Nordstrom Direct]]
|2,150
|-
|7
| [[Mercy Medical Center (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)|Mercy Medical Center]]
|2,140
|-
|8
| City of Cedar Rapids
|1,309
|-
|9
| Four Oaks
|1,100
|-
|10
| [[Quaker Oats Company]]
|920
|}

===Tourism===
Cedar Rapids is nicknamed the "City of Five Seasons", for the so-called "fifth season", which is time to enjoy the other four.<ref name="motto">{{cite web |title=What is the "City of Five Seasons"? |url=http://www.cedar-rapids.org/local_government/about_city_government/city_of_five_seasons.php |access-date=May 23, 2018 |publisher=City of Cedar Rapids}}</ref> This slogan is often satirized by residents as the "City of Five Smells", as a result of the smell combinations in the 1970s from the city's Quaker Oats and Penford factories, a hog slaughterhouse, and the municipal sewage plant and landfill.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cedar Rapids' legacy of smells plays in Penford debate |url=https://www.thegazette.com/news/cedar-rapids-legacy-of-smells-plays-in-penford-debate/ |access-date=March 28, 2024 |website=www.thegazette.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The symbol of the five seasons is the Tree of Five Seasons sculpture in downtown along the north river bank. The name "Five Seasons" and representations of the sculpture appear throughout the city in many forms.<ref name=motto/>

The city is home to the [[Cedar Rapids Museum of Art]], the [[National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library]], the [[Paramount Theatre (Cedar Rapids, Iowa)|Paramount Theatre]], [[Orchestra Iowa]], [[Theatre Cedar Rapids]], the [[African American Museum of Iowa]], and the Iowa Cultural Corridor Alliance. In the 1990s and 2000s, several Cedar Rapidians became well-known actors, including [[Ashton Kutcher]], [[Elijah Wood]], [[Terry Farrell (actress)|Terry Farrell]], and [[Ron Livingston]]. The city is the setting for the musical ''[[The Pajama Game]]'' and the comedy film ''[[Cedar Rapids (film)|Cedar Rapids]]''.