Cedar Rapids
a city in Linn co., Ia., on the Cedar river, er, and on the Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. St. Paul, the Illinois Central and other railroads; 79 miles S. W. of Dubuque. The city is regularly laid out and well built, and is the trade center of the surrounding country. It contains large pork-packing establishments, and the river supplies power for numerous manufactories and machine shops. The headquarters of the Order of Railway Conductors are located here. It is the seat of Coe College, and has electric lights and railways, waterworks, a high school, several churches, daily and weekly newspapers, public and and Masonic libraries, National banks, St. Luke's Hospital, etc. The city is connected with the opposite bank of the river by several bridges. Pop. (1910) 32,811; (1920). 45,566.