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Art museum, czech village, tour the brucemore manor, pickle palace, go drinking and fuck college age white girls in iowa city, downtown bazaar farmers market in the summer, boating on the lakes and cedar river. Plus lots of hiking and camping in top-tier nature but there's more than enough to fill a single day besides that. You can do a lot worse than that part of Iowa honestly. Waterloo, davenport, dubuque are all shit. I don't even know what's west of Des Moines. It doesn't make sense to exclusively vacation in CR (unless you're looking for something lowkey), but it's a short enough drive from Chicago that you can just make a daytrip of it and get something out of it. The art museum is great, though sometimes the exhibits of the season are kind of eh.

It's a mid-sized blue collar city anon. LA is a major metropolitan area. Cedar Rapids punches above its weight, but comparing the two is nonsense.