These people bring with them an exciting blend of skills and interests. In return, the community offers its residents an attractive, diverse, interesting, and stable place to live. At ACT and its neighbor, National Computer Systems, more than 2,000 employees are involved in providing educational services and processing information. For more information, visit a few local websites. The Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce provides a look at Cedar Rapids, Iowa and surrounding communities.
Varied housing is available in urban and rural settings.
There is a wide variety of recreation opportunities for persons of all ages, with numerous municipal and private recreation facilities, both indoor and outdoor, in addition to two lakes for those who enjoy water sports. Iowa City offers two shopping malls as well as the many restaurants and specialty stores in and near downtown. Coralville features the largest shopping mall in the state. The Hancher Center for the Performing Arts brings the area the best in music and theatre. To the north, Cedar Rapids, with a population of more than 100,000, provides a broad range of shopping, recreation, and entertainment opportunities, in addition to serving as home for a professional baseball team.