Iowa City is a small city... It used to be the capitol city of the state of Iowa. Since it was poorly designed, the capitol has been moved to another city, leaving U of Iowa alone in the city.
If you like corn, corn fields, constant quietness and occasional tornadoes (rfew years ago, a tornado slammed into the middle of the city head-on), you can choose to be there. :)
Anyway University of Iowa is a good one... Its football team is not bad either.