HomeNewsLocalQuad CityEerie Iowa: The Hawkeye State’s Darker SideEerie Iowa: The Hawkeye State’s Darker SideSun, October 5, 2025 by River Cities' ReaderSHARE NOW Overhead, Iowa’s landscape is a quilt of green patches of cornfields stitched together by highways that connect its 934 cities. It’s a picturesque Grant Wood painting of rural America. But from the ground, these fields feel very different.
