Iowa City Photo Pages

Iowa City, Iowa is the county seat of Johnson County and a principal city of Eastern Iowa.  It is located along Interstate 80, 112 miles to the east of Des Moines and 25 miles south of Cedar Rapids.  Situated on the banks of the Iowa River, this historically important city was the former capital city of Iowa from 1842 to 1857, and is home to a major public state university in the University of Iowa.  With a rapidly growing metropolitan population of 115,000, the Iowa City-Coralville metro area's brightest years may be just ahead of it.  The University provides Iowa City with a wide variety of cultural and sporting events, allowing Iowa City to be one of the most vibrant and lively cities in Iowa.  The city is full of clean neighborhoods and parks, a historical and vibrant downtown, interesting architecture from all periods and is constantly ranked as "one of the best places to live" in quality of life listings.  The highly educated populace is employed by a large workforce of medical workers from the large hospital complexes, educational workers with the University of Iowa, with a good percentage of technical and office workers in between.  Iowa City is considered by many to be the cultural hub of Iowa, and is typically highly regarded amongst many Hawkeye State residents.

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University of Iowa Campus- Photos from the beautiful riverside campus of the University of Iowa.
 

Neighborhoods and Residential- Tour the more urban neighborhoods of Iowa City, near downtown.