* The headquarter and the factory of Quaker Oatmeal worldwide * The born place of Grant Wood, Landon Cassill, Ashton Kutcher and Elijah Wood. Priyanka Chopra once attended high school in Cedar Rapids. read more
The Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is also a part of a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) with the Iowa City MSA. This CSA plus two additional counties are known as the Iowa City-Cedar Rapids (ICR) Corridor and collectively have a population of over 450,000. read more
Cedar Rapids is a 2011 comedy about Tim Lippe, played by Ed Helms, who goes to Cedar Rapids to represent his company at an insurance convention. The movie also stars John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, Sigourney Weaver, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Alia Shawkat, Rob Corddry, Kurtwood Smith, Stephen Root and Thomas Lennon. read more