Sioux City is a city in Plymouth

Plymouth County, Iowa

Plymouth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 24,986 in the 2010 census, an increase from 24,849 in the 2000 census. The county seat is Le Mars...

 and Woodbury

Woodbury County, Iowa

-2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 102,172 in the county, with a population density of . There were 41,454 housing units, of which 39,052 were occupied.-2000 census:...

 counties in the western part of the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Iowa

Iowa

Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...

. The population was 82,684 in the 2010 census, a decline from 85,013 in the 2000 census, which makes it currently the fourth largest city in the state.

Sioux City is the primary city of the four-county Sioux City, IA

Iowa

Iowa is a state located in the Midwestern United States, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland". It derives its name from the Ioway people, one of the many American Indian tribes that occupied the state at the time of European exploration. Iowa was a part of the French colony of New...

–NE

Nebraska

Nebraska is a state on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States. The state's capital is Lincoln and its largest city is Omaha, on the Missouri River....

–SD

South Dakota

South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...

 Metropolitan Statistical Area

Sioux City metropolitan area

The Sioux City Metropolitan Statistical Area, otherwise known as Siouxland, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of four counties in three states – Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota, anchored by the city of Sioux City, Iowa...

 (MSA), with a population of 143,005 in 2000 and a slight increase to an estimated 144,360 in 2009. The Sioux City-Vermillion

Vermillion, South Dakota

Vermillion is a city in and the county seat of Clay County, in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of South Dakota, and the tenth largest city in the state. According to the 2010 Census, the population was 10,571. Vermillion lies atop a bluff near the Missouri River.The area has been home to...

, IA-NE-SD Combined Statistical Area had a population of 156,503 as of 2000 and has grown to an estimated population of 157,850 as of 2009.

Sioux City is at the navigational head of the Missouri River, about 95 miles north of the Omaha-Council Bluffs metropolitan area. Sioux City and the surrounding areas of northwestern Iowa, northeastern Nebraska and southeastern South Dakota are sometimes referred to as Siouxland, especially by the local media.

Money

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recognized Sioux City in its August 2010 issue of "Best Places To Live". In 2008 and 2009, the Sioux City Tri-State Metropolitan Area was recognized by Site Selection

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as the top economic development community in the United States for communities with populations between 50,000 and 200,000 people. Forbes placed the Sioux City metro in the Top 15 Best Small Places for Businesses and Careers and MSN.com ranked the area the #2 Most Livabale Bargain Market. The Daily Beast

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, an American news reporting website, placed Sioux City on their list of The Top 40 Drunkest Cities in America, with a ranking of 14th.

History

The first people to live in this area were Native Americans. These inhabitants lived here thousands of years before any explorers from Spain or France arrived. Early French or Spanish fur traders were likely the first Europeans in the area. The first documented explorers to record their travels through this area were the Americans Meriwether Lewis and William Clark during the summer of 1804. Sergeant Charles Floyd, a member of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, died here on August 20, 1804, the only fatality during the two and a half-year expedition.

In 1891, the Sioux City Elevated Railway was opened and became the third steam powered elevated rapid transit

Rapid transit

A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated railway, metro or metropolitan railway system is an electric passenger railway in an urban area with a high capacity and frequency, and grade separation from other traffic. Rapid transit systems are typically located either in underground tunnels or on...

 system in the world, and later the first electric-powered elevated railway in the world after a conversion in 1892. However, the system fell into bankruptcy and closed within a decade.

The city gained the nickname "Little Chicago" during the Prohibition

Prohibition

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 era due to its reputation for being a purveyor of alcoholic beverages.

On July 19, 1989, United Airlines flight 232

United Airlines Flight 232

United Airlines Flight 232 was a scheduled flight from Stapleton International Airport in Denver, Colorado, to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, with continuing service to Philadelphia International Airport...

 crash landed at Sioux Gateway Airport

Sioux Gateway Airport

-History:The construction of Sioux City Army Air Base began in March 1942, about three months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Opened on 5 July 1942, it became a major training center during World War II for crew members of B-24 Liberators and B-17 Flying Fortresses...

, killing 111 people.

Geography and climate

Sioux City is located at 42°29′53"N 96°23′45"W (42.497957, -96.395705). Sioux City is at an altitude of 1135 feet (345.9 m) above sea level.

According to the United States Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau

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, the city has a total area of 56.0 square miles (144.9 km²), of which 54.8 square miles (141.9 km²) is land and 1.2 square miles (3.0 km²) (2.06%) is water.

Climate

Sioux City is located very near the center of the North America

North America

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n continent, far removed from any major bodies of water. This produces a humid continental climate

Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot summers and cold winters....

, with hot, humid summers, cold snowy winters, and wide temperature extremes. Summers can bring daytime temperatures that climb into the 90s Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit is the temperature scale proposed in 1724 by, and named after, the German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit . Within this scale, the freezing of water into ice is defined at 32 degrees, while the boiling point of water is defined to be 212 degrees...

, and winter lows can be well below zero.

Demographics

2010 census

The 2010 census recorded a population of 82,684 in the city, with a population density of . There were 33,425 housing units, of which 31,571 were occupied.

2000 census

As of the census

Census

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of 2000, there were 85,013 people, 32,054 households, and 21,091 families residing in the city. The population density

Population density

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 was 1,551.3 people per square mile (599.0/km²). There were 33,816 housing units at an average density of 617.1 per square mile (238.3/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 85.23% White, 2.41% African American, 1.95% Native American, 2.82% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 5.27% from other races

Race (United States Census)

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, and 2.28% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.89% of the population.

There were 32,054 households of which 33.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.1% were married couples

Marriage

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 living together, 12.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.2% were non-families. 27.7% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.57 and the average family size was 3.14.

In the city, the population was spread out with 27.1% under the age of 18, 11.0% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 13.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 95.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $37,429, and the median income for a family was $45,751. Males had a median income of $31,385 versus $22,470 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

Per capita income or income per person is a measure of mean income within an economic aggregate, such as a country or city. It is calculated by taking a measure of all sources of income in the aggregate and dividing it by the total population...

 for the city was $18,666. About 7.9% of families and 11.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.0% of those under age 18 and 7.8% of those age 65 or over.

The Sioux City Human Rights Commission

Sioux City Human Rights Commission

Sioux City Human Rights Commission is an impartial governmental agency that primarily investigates allegations of discrimination. Other duties include community education and hosting events that promote diversity and the elimination of discrimination...

 is an impartial governmental agency that works to protect the rights of the population from discrimination.

Metropolitan area

As of the 2000 census

Census

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, the Sioux City metropolitan area had 144,360 residents in four counties; the population was estimated at 143,157 in 2008. As defined by the Office of Management and Budget, the counties comprising the metropolitan area are (in descending order of population):

• Woodbury County, Iowa
  Woodbury County, Iowa
  -2010 census:The 2010 census recorded a population of 102,172 in the county, with a population density of . There were 41,454 housing units, of which 39,052 were occupied.-2000 census:...
  
  
• Dakota County, Nebraska
  Dakota County, Nebraska
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 20,253 people, 7,095 households, and 5,087 families residing in the county. The population density was 77 people per square mile . There were 7,528 housing units at an average density of 28 per square mile...
  
  
• Union County, South Dakota
  Union County, South Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 12,584 people, 4,927 households, and 3,517 families residing in the county. The population density was 27 people per square mile . There were 5,345 housing units at an average density of 12 per square mile...
  
  
• Dixon County, Nebraska
  Dixon County, Nebraska
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 6,339 people, 2,413 households, and 1,705 families residing in the county. The population density was 13 people per square mile . There were 2,673 housing units at an average density of 6 per square mile...
  
  

Two of these counties, Union and Dixon, were added to the metro area in 2003. In reality, only Woodbury, Dakota, and Union counties contain any metropolitan character; Dixon County is entirely rural.

Plymouth County

Plymouth County, Iowa

Plymouth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 24,986 in the 2010 census, an increase from 24,849 in the 2000 census. The county seat is Le Mars...

 is not considered part of metropolitan Sioux City although the extreme north and northwest sides of the city spill over into Plymouth County.

Economy

American Pop Corn Company

American Pop Corn Company

The American Pop Corn Company is a family owned popcorn producer. Founded in 1914, it is the oldest popcorn company in the United States. Its only brand, Jolly Time, is sold globally and in every state in America...

 is based in Sioux City.

Top employers
Statistics from Sioux City's 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report

Rank	Employer	Number of Employees	% of Total City Employment
1	Tyson Fresh Meats Tyson Foods Tyson Foods, Inc. is a multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry. The company is the world's second largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork only behind Brazilian JBS S.A., and annually exports the largest percentage of beef out of...	4,768	11.30%
2	Sioux City Community School District	2,057	4.87%
3	Mercy Medical Center	1,800	4.27%
4	St. Luke's Regional Medical Center St. Luke's Regional Medical Center (Sioux City, Iowa) St. Luke's Regional Medical Center is a community hospital serving Sioux City, Iowa, United States and the surrounding Siouxland area. St. Luke's was named as Siouxland's Consumer Choice Award winner for most preferred hospital.St...	1,229	2.91%
5	City of Sioux City	1,024	2.43%
6	185th Air Refueling Wing 185th Air Refueling Wing The United States Air Force's 185th Air Refueling Wing is a unit located at Sioux Gateway Airport, Iowa, which is located just west of Sergeant Bluff, Iowa.-Mission:...	950	2.25%
7	Morningside College Morningside College Morningside College is a private, liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church located in Sioux City, Iowa. Founded in 1894 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, Morningside College is a private, four-year, co-educational liberal arts institution. Morningside has 21 buildings on a ...	880	2.09%
8	Curly's Foods	700	1.66%
8	Tri-State Nursing	700	1.66%
10	MidAmerican Energy MidAmerican Energy Company MidAmerican Energy Company is an energy company based in Des Moines, Iowa. Its service area includes almost two-thirds of Iowa, as well as portions of Illinois, South Dakota, and Nebraska. Its territory is wholly encompassed by the territory of the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator...	659	1.56%
	Totals	14,767	34.99%

Arts and culture

• The Sioux City Public Museum
  Sioux City Public Museum
  The Sioux City Public Museum located in Sioux City, Iowa was originally a mansion and had exhibits relating to the history of the region. There were also exhibits detailing the Lakota people, Omaha people, and Winnebago people....
  
   is located in a Northside neighborhood of fine Victorian mansions. The portico-and-gabled stone building was originally the home of the banker, John Peirce, and was built in 1890. The museum features Native American, pioneer, early Sioux City, and natural history exhibits. The museum will shortly be relocated downtown.

• The Sioux City Art Center
  Sioux City Art Center
  The Sioux City Art Center began as a Works Progress Administration project in 1937 when the Art Center Association of Sioux City, the Sioux City Junior League, as well as other community supporters, received a grant of $3,000 to create the first art center...
  
  ,located Downtown, was formed in 1938 as part of the WPA
  Works Progress Administration
  The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects...
  
  's support of the arts. The Art Center is committed to supporting artists from Iowa and the greater Midwest. Also, the Center has a general program of acquisition of work by national and international artists, including important works by Thomas Hart Benton
  Thomas Hart Benton (painter)
  Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter and muralist. Along with Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry, he was at the forefront of the Regionalist art movement. His fluid, almost sculpted paintings showed everyday scenes of life in the United States...
  
  , Salvador Dalí
  Salvador Dalí
  Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....
  
  , Käthe Kollwitz
  Käthe Kollwitz
  Käthe Kollwitz was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition in the first half of the 20th century...
  
  , Robert Motherwell
  Robert Motherwell
  Robert Motherwell American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School , which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston....
  
  , Claes Oldenburg
  Claes Oldenburg
  Claes Oldenburg is a Swedish sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects...
  
  , James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Grant Wood
  Grant Wood
  Grant DeVolson Wood was an American painter, born four miles east of Anamosa, Iowa. He is best known for his paintings depicting the rural American Midwest, particularly the painting American Gothic, an iconic image of the 20th century.- Life and career :His family moved to Cedar Rapids after his...
  
  .

• The Sergeant Floyd Monument
  Sergeant Floyd Monument
  The Sergeant Floyd Monument is a monument on the bank of the Missouri River at Floyd's Bluff in what is now Sioux City, Iowa, USA. The monument honors Charles Floyd, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, who died on the upstream voyage in 1804 and was buried here.The monument is the first...
  
   commemorates the burial site of U.S. Army Sergeant Charles Floyd
  Charles Floyd (explorer)
  Charles Floyd was a United States explorer, a non-commissioned officer in the U.S. Army, and quartermaster in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. A native of Kentucky, he was a relative of William Clark, an uncle to the politician John Floyd, and a brother to James John Floyd...
  
  , the only man to die on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
  Lewis and Clark Expedition
  The Lewis and Clark Expedition, or ″Corps of Discovery Expedition" was the first transcontinental expedition to the Pacific Coast by the United States. Commissioned by President Thomas Jefferson and led by two Virginia-born veterans of Indian wars in the Ohio Valley, Meriwether Lewis and William...
  
  . It is a National Historic Landmark
  National Historic Landmark
  A National Historic Landmark is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance...
  
  , with its prominent 100 feet (30.5 m) obelisk situated on 23 acres (93,077.8 m²) of parkland, high on a river bluff with a splendid view of the Missouri River
  Missouri River
  The Missouri River flows through the central United States, and is a tributary of the Mississippi River. It is the longest river in North America and drains the third largest area, though only the thirteenth largest by discharge. The Missouri's watershed encompasses most of the American Great...
  
   valley.

• Chris Larsen Park, informally known as "The Riverfront," is the launching point for the riverboat casino and includes the Anderson Dance Pavilion, the Sergeant Floyd Riverboat Museum and the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, opened in 2004. Massive Missouri River development began in 2005 with the opening of the MLR Tyme Marina area, which includes Beverly's, an upscale restaurant.

• Grandview Park is located north of the downtown area, up from Rose Hill, between The Northside and The Heights. The Municipal Bandshell is located in the park with Sunday evening municipal band concerts. The Saturday in the Park
  Saturday in the Park (music festival)
  Saturday in the Park is an annual festival that is held primarily at the Grandview Park Municipal Bandshell in Sioux City, Iowa. Started in 1991, the festival falls on the Saturday closest to the 4th of July and attracts around 50,000 people from all over the Midwest for the weekend...
  
   music festival began in 1991 and is held there annually over a weekend around the Fourth of July. Behind the bandshell is a rose garden with an arbor and trellises which has been a site for outdoor weddings, prom and other special occasion photographs, and for children to play during the Sunday evening band concerts and other events. Downtown is also home to the largest historic theatre in Iowa, the Orpheum Theater.

Neighborhoods, commercial districts, and suburbs

Nearby communities

• Elk Point, South Dakota
  Elk Point, South Dakota
  Elk Point is a city in Union County, South Dakota, United States. It is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,963 as of the 2010 census...
  
   is 15 miles north of Sioux City off of Interstate 29 with a population of 1,997 as of 2009.

• Dakota City, Nebraska
  Dakota City, Nebraska
  Dakota City is a city in Dakota County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,821 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Dakota County...
  
   is just south of South Sioux City with a population of 1,908 as of 2009. It is the county seat of Dakota County
  Dakota County, Nebraska
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 20,253 people, 7,095 households, and 5,087 families residing in the county. The population density was 77 people per square mile . There were 7,528 housing units at an average density of 28 per square mile...
  
  .

• Dakota Dunes, South Dakota
  Dakota Dunes, South Dakota
  Dakota Dunes is an unincorporated, master-planned residential and commercial development covering about in Union County in the extreme southeast corner of the U.S. state of South Dakota. The development is sandwiched between the Big Sioux River and the Missouri River...
  
   is an unincorporated
  Unincorporated area
  In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
  
   "master-planned community" just west of Sioux City in the extreme southeast corner of South Dakota
  South Dakota
  South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. Once a part of Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889. The state has an area of and an estimated population of just over...
  
   with a population of 2,647 as of 2008. Construction began circa 1989. Up-scale homes, suburban-style office parks, and a country club
  Country club
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   golf course
  Golf course
  A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, fairway, rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick and cup, all designed for the game of golf. A standard round of golf consists of playing 18 holes, thus most golf courses have this number of holes...
  
   designed by Arnold Palmer
  Arnold Palmer
  Arnold Daniel Palmer is an American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf. He has won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955...
  
   characterize this area.

• Hinton, Iowa
  Hinton, Iowa
  As of the census of 2000, there were 808 people, 303 households, and 226 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,386.1 people per square mile . There were 319 housing units at an average density of 547.2 per square mile...
  
   is 6 miles north of Sioux City on Highway 75 with a population of 836 as of 2009.

• Lawton, Iowa
  Lawton, Iowa
  Lawton is a city in Woodbury County, Iowa, United States. It is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 697 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lawton is located at ....
  
   is 8 miles on Highway 20 with a population of 790 as of 2009.

• Le Mars, Iowa
  Le Mars, Iowa
  Le Mars is a city in and the county seat of Plymouth County, Iowa, United States. The population was 9,237 at the 2000 census. Le Mars is the home of Wells' Dairy, the world's largest producer of ice cream novelties in one location and is the self-proclaimed "Ice Cream Capital of the World". Wells...
  
   is 20 miles north of Sioux City off of Highway 75 with a population of 9,124 as of 2009.

• Jefferson, South Dakota
  Jefferson, South Dakota
  Jefferson is a city in Union County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 547 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. Jefferson was founded in 1859...
  
   is 9 miles north of Sioux City off of Interstate 29 with a population of 618 as of 2009.

• North Sioux City, South Dakota
  North Sioux City, South Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 2,288 people, 916 households, and 621 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,021.7 people per square mile . There were 953 housing units at an average density of 425.6 per square mile...
  
   is just across the Big Sioux River
  Big Sioux River
  The Big Sioux River is a tributary of the Missouri River, long, in eastern South Dakota and northwestern Iowa in the United States. The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Big Sioux River" as the stream's name in 1961....
  
   in Union County
  Union County, South Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 12,584 people, 4,927 households, and 3,517 families residing in the county. The population density was 27 people per square mile . There were 5,345 housing units at an average density of 12 per square mile...
  
   with a population of 2,601 as of 2009.

• Sergeant Bluff
  Sergeant Bluff, Iowa
  As of the census of 2000, there were 3,321 people, 1,137 households, and 891 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,668.7 people per square mile . There were 1,176 housing units at an average density of 590.9 per square mile...
  
   is a mainly residential suburb
  Suburb
  The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...
  
   adjacent to the southern city limits of Sioux City with a population of 4,027 as of 2009, and is less than a mile east of the Sioux City Airport
  Sioux Gateway Airport
  -History:The construction of Sioux City Army Air Base began in March 1942, about three months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Opened on 5 July 1942, it became a major training center during World War II for crew members of B-24 Liberators and B-17 Flying Fortresses...
  
  .

• South Sioux City, Nebraska
  South Sioux City, Nebraska
  -2000 Census:As of the census of 2000, there were 11,925 people, 4,304 households, and 2,961 families residing in the city. Of the 11,925 people, 48.6% are male and 51.4% are female. The population density was 2,431.6 people per square mile . There were 4,557 housing units at an average density of...
  
   is directly across the Missouri River
  Missouri River
  The Missouri River flows through the central United States, and is a tributary of the Mississippi River. It is the longest river in North America and drains the third largest area, though only the thirteenth largest by discharge. The Missouri's watershed encompasses most of the American Great...
  
   in Dakota County
  Dakota County, Nebraska
  -Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 20,253 people, 7,095 households, and 5,087 families residing in the county. The population density was 77 people per square mile . There were 7,528 housing units at an average density of 28 per square mile...
  
  . With nearly 12,213 residents as of 2009, it is the largest suburb of Sioux City. It was an All America City
  All-America City Award
  The All-America City Award is given by the National Civic League annually to ten cities in the United States.The oldest community recognition program in the nation, the award recognizes communities whose citizens work together to identify and tackle community-wide challenges and achieve uncommon...
  
   in 2003. Two bridges—the Veterans Memorial Bridge and the Interstate 129
  Interstate 129
  Interstate 129 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway which connects South Sioux City to Interstate 29 in Sioux City, Iowa. Opened in 1976, I-129 is a long route, running in Nebraska. At , Interstate 129 is the shortest highway in the state of Iowa...
  
   bridge—connect Sioux City with South Sioux City.

• Vermillion, South Dakota
  Vermillion, South Dakota
  Vermillion is a city in and the county seat of Clay County, in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of South Dakota, and the tenth largest city in the state. According to the 2010 Census, the population was 10,571. Vermillion lies atop a bluff near the Missouri River.The area has been home to...
  
   is home to the University of South Dakota
  University of South Dakota
  The University of South Dakota ', the state’s oldest university, was founded in 1862 and classes began in 1882. Located in Vermillion, South Dakota, United States, USD is home to South Dakota's only medical school and law school. USD is governed by the South Dakota Board of Regents, and its current...
  
  , a Division I university located 33 miles northwest of Sioux City.

Parks and recreation

• Stone State Park
  Stone State Park
  Stone State Park is a state park of Iowa, USA, located in the bluffs and ravines adjacent to the Big Sioux River. The park consists of in Woodbury and Plymouth Counties near Sioux City, and overlooks the South Dakota-Iowa border...
  
   is in the northwest corner of the city, overlooking the South Dakota/Iowa border. Stone Park is near the northernmost extent of the Loess Hills
  Loess Hills
  The Loess Hills are a formation of wind-deposited loess soil in the westernmost part of Iowa and Missouri along the Missouri River.-Geology:The Loess Hills are generally located between 1 and east of the Missouri River channel...
  
  , and is at the transition from clay bluffs and prairie to sedimentary rock hills and bur oak
  Bur oak
  Quercus macrocarpa, the Bur Oak, sometimes spelled Burr Oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section Quercus sect. Quercus, native to North America in the eastern and midwestern United States and south-central Canada...
  
   forest along the Iowa side of the Big Sioux River
  Big Sioux River
  The Big Sioux River is a tributary of the Missouri River, long, in eastern South Dakota and northwestern Iowa in the United States. The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Big Sioux River" as the stream's name in 1961....
  
  . The park is used by picnic
  Picnic
  In contemporary usage, a picnic can be defined simply as a pleasure excursion at which a meal is eaten outdoors , ideally taking place in a beautiful landscape such as a park, beside a lake or with an interesting view and possibly at a public event such as before an open air theatre performance,...
  
  kers, day hikers, and for mountain biking.
• Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center is a destination nature preserve for Woodbury County, and is located within the boundaries of Stone State Park. The butterfly garden is unique to the area; wild turkey
  Wild Turkey
  The Wild Turkey is native to North America and is the heaviest member of the Galliformes. It is the same species as the domestic turkey, which derives from the South Mexican subspecies of wild turkey .Adult wild turkeys have long reddish-yellow to grayish-green...
  
  s and white-tail deer are commonly sighted from the well-marked trails.

• Downtown entertainment venues include the casino, the 10,000-seat Tyson Event Center/ Gateway Arena, Sioux City Orpheum Theatre, Promenade Cinema 14, Martin Ballroom, Galaxie Ballroom At-Bellevue and the Anderson Dance Pavilion which overlooks the Missouri River
  Missouri River
  The Missouri River flows through the central United States, and is a tributary of the Mississippi River. It is the longest river in North America and drains the third largest area, though only the thirteenth largest by discharge. The Missouri's watershed encompasses most of the American Great...
  
  .

• Pulaski Park is named for the Polish
  Poland
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
  
   General Kazimierz Pułaski, who fought in the American Revolution. This park features baseball diamond facilities, and is located in western Morningside along old U.S. Highway 75 (South Lewis Blvd.). It is largely built on the filled lakebed of Half Moon Lake, which was originally created in the 1890s by the excavation of fill dirt to build the approaches for the iron railroad bridge spanning the Missouri near the stockyards. The neighborhood on the bluff overlooking the park was historically settled by Lithuanian
  Lithuanians
  Lithuanians are the Baltic ethnic group native to Lithuania, where they number around 2,765,600 people. Another million or more make up the Lithuanian diaspora, largely found in countries such as the United States, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Russia, United Kingdom and Ireland. Their native language...
  
   and Polish immigrants, many of whom worked in the meatpacking industry during the early 20th century.
• Latham Park is located in a residential area of Morningside, and is the only privately owned and maintained open-to-the-public park within the city limits. It was left in trust in 1937 under the terms of Clara Latham's will; her family had built the house on 1 acres (4,046.9 m²) of ground in 1915. The house and grounds are currently being restored by the Friends of Latham Park.

• First Bride's Grave is tucked in a corner pocket of South Ravine Park, lies a series of paths, trails, and steps leading to the grave of the First Bride of Sioux City, Rosalie Menard. She was the first bride of a non-native American to be wed in Sioux City, Iowa, thus receiving her title.

• War Eagle Park is named for the Yankton Sioux chief Wambdi Okicize
  Chief War Eagle
  War Eagle was born in Minnesota or Wisconsin in around 1785. His Dakota name was . He had left his own tribe, the Santee, to avoid bloodshed in a fight as to who would be chief. As a young man, War Eagle spent considerable time working among the white Americans...
  
   (d. 1851) who befriended early settlers. A monument overlooks the confluence of the Big Sioux and Missouri Rivers. The sculpture represents the chief in his role as a leader and peacemaker, wearing the eagle feather bonnet
  War bonnet
  Feathered war bonnets were worn by honored Plains Indian men, sometimes into battle, but most often for ceremonial occasions, and were seen as items of great spiritual and magical importance...
  
   and holding the peace pipe.

• Riverside Park is located on the banks of the Big Sioux River. One of the oldest recreational areas of the city, it is home to the Sioux City Boat Club and Sioux City Community Theater. The park is on land that once belonged to the first white settler in the area, Theophile Bruguier
  Théophile Bruguier
  Theophile Bruguier was a French-Canadian fur trader with the American Fur Company. Bruguier is credited as being the first white settler of what would become Sioux City, Iowa.-Biography:...
  
  ; his original cabin is preserved in the park.

• Bacon Creek Park is located northeast of Morningside and features a scenic walking trail, dog park, picnic shelters, and playground equipment.

Golf courses, city parks, and aquatics: Sioux City is also home to several municipal public golf courses, including Floyd Park in Morningside, Green Valley near the Southern Hills, Sun Valley on the northern West Side, and Hidden Acres in nearby Plymouth County. Sioux City also has a number of private golf clubs, including Sioux City Country Club, and Whispering Creek Golf Club. The city has over 1132 acres (5 km²) of public parkland located at 53 locations, including the riverfront and many miles of recreation trails. Five public swimming pools/aquatics centers are located within Sioux City neighborhoods.

Education

Public Schools
The Sioux City Community School District serves 13,480 students living in Sioux City; there are three public high schools West High School, North High School

Sioux City North High School

North High School is a public secondary school located in Sioux City, Iowa with an enrollment of approximately 1,200 students...

, East High School (grades 9-12), three public Middle Schools, West Middle, North Middle, and East Middle (grades 6-8), and 19 Elementary Schools (grades K-5).

Because of sprawl, districts around Sioux City continue to grow at dramatic rates. South Sioux City

South Sioux City, Nebraska

-2000 Census:As of the census of 2000, there were 11,925 people, 4,304 households, and 2,961 families residing in the city. Of the 11,925 people, 48.6% are male and 51.4% are female. The population density was 2,431.6 people per square mile . There were 4,557 housing units at an average density of...

, Hinton

Hinton, Iowa

As of the census of 2000, there were 808 people, 303 households, and 226 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,386.1 people per square mile . There were 319 housing units at an average density of 547.2 per square mile...

, North Sioux City

North Sioux City, South Dakota

As of the census of 2000, there were 2,288 people, 916 households, and 621 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,021.7 people per square mile . There were 953 housing units at an average density of 425.6 per square mile...

, Lawton

Lawton, Iowa

Lawton is a city in Woodbury County, Iowa, United States. It is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 697 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lawton is located at ....

, Bronson

Bronson, Iowa

Bronson is a city in Woodbury County, Iowa, United States. It is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 269 at the 2000 census....

, Elk Point

Elk Point, South Dakota

Elk Point is a city in Union County, South Dakota, United States. It is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,963 as of the 2010 census...

, Jefferson

Jefferson, South Dakota

Jefferson is a city in Union County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 547 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. Jefferson was founded in 1859...

, Vermillion

Vermillion, South Dakota

Vermillion is a city in and the county seat of Clay County, in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of South Dakota, and the tenth largest city in the state. According to the 2010 Census, the population was 10,571. Vermillion lies atop a bluff near the Missouri River.The area has been home to...

, Le Mars

Le Mars, Iowa

Le Mars is a city in and the county seat of Plymouth County, Iowa, United States. The population was 9,237 at the 2000 census. Le Mars is the home of Wells' Dairy, the world's largest producer of ice cream novelties in one location and is the self-proclaimed "Ice Cream Capital of the World". Wells...

, Hawarden

Hawarden, Iowa

Hawarden is a city in Sioux County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,478 at the 2000 census. It is located on the Big Sioux River.-Geography:Hawarden is located at , along the Big Sioux River....

, Akron

Akron, Iowa

Akron is a city in Plymouth County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,489 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Akron is located at , along the Big Sioux River....

, Westfield

Westfield, Iowa

Westfield is a city in Plymouth County, Iowa, United States. The population was 189 at the 2000 census. It is the westernmost point in Iowa, this being due to a bend in the Big Sioux River. A sign on the highway says "In Iowa, West Is The Best"...

, Ponca

Ponca, Nebraska

Ponca is a city in Dixon County, Nebraska, United States. It is part of the Sioux City, IA–NE–SD Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 961 at the 2010 census...

, Sergeant Bluff

Sergeant Bluff, Iowa

As of the census of 2000, there were 3,321 people, 1,137 households, and 891 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,668.7 people per square mile . There were 1,176 housing units at an average density of 590.9 per square mile...

, Wayne

Wayne, Nebraska

Wayne is a city in Wayne County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 5,660 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Wayne County and the home of Wayne State College.-Geography:Wayne is located at ....

, Sioux Center

Sioux Center, Iowa

Sioux Center is a city in Sioux County, Iowa, United States. The population was 6,002 at the 2000 census; a special census in 2005 counted 6,327 residents. The first report of Sioux Center's population from the 2010 census is 7,048...

, along with other school districts that serve many metro-area students.
Private Schools
Sioux City Bishop Heelan Catholic School is a centralized Catholic School System that includes eight schools: six elementary schools, all Pre K-6.

Sioux City Christian School's educates grades K-12.
Advanced Education
Sioux City is home to Morningside College

Morningside College

Morningside College is a private, liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church located in Sioux City, Iowa. Founded in 1894 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, Morningside College is a private, four-year, co-educational liberal arts institution. Morningside has 21 buildings on a ...

, Briar Cliff University

Briar Cliff University

Briar Cliff University is a private, Franciscan Roman Catholic liberal arts university located in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. -History:In March 1929, Mother Mary Dominica Wieneke, Major Superior of...

, Western Iowa Tech

Western Iowa Tech

Western Iowa Tech Community College, or WIT as it is often called, is an institution of higher education with five campuses in northwestern Iowa. The main campus is located in Sioux City, Iowa, the other campuses are located in Mapleton, LeMars, Denison, and Cherokee.-Main Campus:The main campus is...

, St. Lukes College, Bellevue University

Bellevue University

Bellevue University is a private university located in Bellevue, Nebraska.-History:Creating a new college in Bellevue, Nebraska was No. 1 on the agenda for the Chamber of Commerce in June 1965. Local civic-leader and businessman Bill Brooks met with his fellow members of the chamber and lead the...

 and Tri-State Graduate Center.

Television stations

• KTIV
  KTIV
  KTIV is an NBC television station in Sioux City, Iowa, broadcasting on digital channel 41.KTIV also carries The CW Television Network, which replaced The WB network in September 2006, on its 4.2 digital subchannel.-History:...
  
  , Channel 4, NBC
  NBC
  The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
  
   affiliate (4.1) CW
  The CW Television Network
  The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006–2007 television season. It is a joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network , and Time Warner's Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB...
  
   affiliate (4.2)
• KCAU, Channel 9, ABC
  American Broadcasting Company
  The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
  
   affiliate
• KMEG
  KMEG
  KMEG is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Southern Siouxland licensed to Sioux City, Iowa. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter in unincorporated Plymouth County, Iowa east of James and US 75 along the Woodbury county line...
  
  , Channel 14, CBS
  CBS
  CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
  
   affiliate (14.1) Azteca
  TV Azteca
  Azteca, is the second largest Mexican television entertainment. It was established in 1983 as the state-owned Instituto Mexicano de la Televisión , a holding of the national TV networks channel 13 and 7 and was privatized under its current name in 1993 and now is part of Grupo Salinas...
  
   affiliate (14.2)
• KSIN, Channel 27, PBS
  Public Broadcasting Service
  The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
  
   member station
• KPTH
  KPTH
  KPTH is the Fox-affiliated television station for the Southern Siouxland licensed to Sioux City, Iowa. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 49 from a transmitter in unincorporated Plymouth County, Iowa, east of James and US 75, along the Woodbury county line...
  
  , Channel 44, Fox
  Fox Broadcasting Company
  Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...
  
   affiliate (44.1) MyNetwork affiliate (44.2)

Radio stations

FM stations

• K-LOVE
  K-LOVE
  K-LOVE is a Contemporary Christian music radio programming service in the United States operated by the Educational Media Foundation. As of January 2011, K-LOVE's programming is carried on over 440 FM stations and translators in 45 states. K-LOVE claims an audience of 250,000 people each week via...
  
  , 88.9, Plays commercial free contemporary Christian music
  Contemporary Christian music
  Contemporary Christian music is a genre of modern popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith...
  
  . Also can be picked up on 107.5 out of Castana, Iowa
  Castana, Iowa
  Castana is a city in Monona County, Iowa, United States. The population was 178 at the 2000 census.-History:The city was founded in the summer of 1866 by A.G. Hammond, formerly a resident of Hartford, Connecticut. However Mr. Hammond died and a Mr...
  
  .
• KMSC
  KMSC-FM
  KMSC 92.9 FM is a college radio station broadcasting an alternative format. It is licensed to Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. Students are able to participate regardless of their field of study, with some classes requiring participation in KMSC's on-air presence...
  
  , 92.9, operated by Morningside College
  Morningside College
  Morningside College is a private, liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church located in Sioux City, Iowa. Founded in 1894 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, Morningside College is a private, four-year, co-educational liberal arts institution. Morningside has 21 buildings on a ...
  
  
• KWIT
  KWIT
  KWIT , is a National Public Radio-affiliated station in Sioux City, Iowa. It primarily features National Public Radio programming. All programs are simulcasted to KOJI in Okoboji, Iowa.-External links:*...
  
  , 90.3, public radio, operated by Western Iowa Tech Community College
• KGLI
  KGLI
  KGLI is a radio station broadcasting a Adult Contemporary format. The station serves Sioux City, Iowa, USA, and is owned by Clear Channel Communications.-History:KGLI signed on with a Top 40 format as "KG95" in 1983...
  
  , 95.5, "KG95" -- adult contemporary; previously played top 40; signed on in 1983
• KSEZ, 97.9, "Z98" -- plays rock music
  Active rock
  Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock plays contemporary rock artists with a mix of songs common in the classic rock radio format.-Format background:...
  
   (classic and new rock); previously top 40 station "Rock 98" in the 1980s
• KKMA
  KKMA
  KKMA 99.5 FM, "Kool 99.5") is a radio station broadcasting a classic rock format. The station is licensed to Le Mars, Iowa, and serves Sioux City, Iowa. KKMA is owned by Powell Broadcasting.-History:...
  
  , 99.5, "Kool 99.5" -- plays Classic Hits
  Classic hits
  Classic hits is a radio format which generally includes rock and pop music from 1964 to 1989. The term is sometimes erroneously used as a synonym for the adult hits format, but is more accurately characterized as a contemporary style of the oldies format...
  
  ; formerly adult contemporary "Magic 99"; call letters were KZZL in the early 1980s as an easy listening
  Easy listening
  Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...
  
   format Home of Iowa State Cyclones athletics
• KKYY
  KKYY
  KKYY is a radio station licensed to serve Whiting, Iowa. The station is owned by Powell Broadcasting Company, Inc. It airs a Classic country format....
  
  , 101.3, "Y101.3" -- country music
  Country music
  Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
  
  ; the newest FM signal in the market
• KQNU, 102.3, ("New 102.3") -- a "adult hits
  Adult hits
  Adult hits is a radio format, popular in the early 2000s, that does not adhere to a specific music genre, but instead draws from a wider playlist...
  
  " station; signed on as Bob-FM on March 13, 2006
• KTFC, 103.3, Religious radio
  Christian radio
  Christian radio is a category of radio formats that focus on transmitting programming with a Christian message. In the United States, where it is more established, many such broadcasters play popular music of Christian influence, though many programs have talk or news programming covering...
  
   station ("Midwest Bible Radio")
• WNAX
  WNAX-FM
  WNAX-FM is a radio station broadcasting a country format. Licensed to Yankton, South Dakota, it serves the Yankton, Vermillion, and Sioux City areas. The station is also rebroadcast on translator K283AG in Sioux City, Iowa. The station is currently owned by Saga Communications.-External links:*...
  
  , 104.1, country; broadcasts from Yankton, South Dakota
  Yankton, South Dakota
  Yankton is a city in, and the county seat of, Yankton County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 14,454 at the 2010 census. Yankton was the original capital of Dakota Territory. It is named for the Yankton tribe of Nakota Native Americans...
  
  ; low-power translator K283AG broadcasts at 104.5 FM in Sioux City, but both frequencies are audible in Sioux City. Previously oldies/classic hits KCLH; was top 40 KQHU "Q104" in 1990.
• KSUX, 105.7, "The SuperPig, K-Sioux 105.7"; has played country music
  Country music
  Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
  
   since the signal went on-air in the fall of 1990.
• KSFT-FM
  KSFT-FM
  KSFT-FM is a radio station broadcasting a Top 40 format. Licensed to the suburb of South Sioux City, Nebraska, the station serves Sioux City, Iowa. The station is currently owned by Clear Channel Communications.-History:...
  
  , 107.1, "Kiss 107FM" -- top 40 station as of March 13, 2006; previously played adult contemporary; signed on in the mid-1990s.

AM stations

• WNAX, 570, talk radio
  Talk radio
  Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...
  
   and farm
  Farm
  A farm is an area of land, or, for aquaculture, lake, river or sea, including various structures, devoted primarily to the practice of producing and managing food , fibres and, increasingly, fuel. It is the basic production facility in food production. Farms may be owned and operated by a single...
  
   news from Yankton, South Dakota
  Yankton, South Dakota
  Yankton is a city in, and the county seat of, Yankton County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 14,454 at the 2010 census. Yankton was the original capital of Dakota Territory. It is named for the Yankton tribe of Nakota Native Americans...
  
  ; with a signal covering much of the upper Midwest
• KMNS
  KMNS
  KMNS is a radio station broadcasting a sports format. Located near Sioux City, Iowa, USA, the station also serves the Sioux Falls area. The station is licensed to AMFM Radio Licenses, LLC.-External links:...
  
  , 620, sports talk radio; was previously "62 Country"
• KSCJ
  KSCJ
  KSCJ is a radio station licensed to serve Sioux City, Iowa. The station is owned by Powell Broadcasting and licensed to KSUX/KSCJ Radio Broadcasting Co. It airs a News/Talk radio format....
  
  , 1360, talk radio
  Talk radio
  Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often feature interviews with a number of different guests. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting live...
  
  ; call letters derive from the Sioux City Journal, which once owned the station
• KWSL
  KWSL
  KWSL is an American radio station licensed to serve Sioux City, Iowa. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications and licensed to AMFM Radio Licenses, LLC. It airs an oldies music format....
  
  , 1470, "Superhits 1470 KWSL", plays oldies
  Oldies
  Oldies is a term commonly used to describe a radio format that concentrates on music from a period of about 15 to 55 years before the present day....
  
  ; was previously broadcasting Spanish language music under the 'La Preciosa' branding

Print

• Sioux City Journal
  Sioux City Journal
  The Sioux City Journal is the daily newspaper of Sioux City, Iowa. The publication covers western Iowa and portions of Nebraska and South Dakota.It is owned by Lee Enterprises Inc....
  
  , daily newspaper serving the Sioux City metro area east into Western Iowa and north to the South Dakota border.
• Dakota County Star, weekly newspaper serving northeast Nebraska.
• Sioux City Hispanos Unidos, bi-weekly Spanish readers paper.
• The Weekender, weekly arts and entertainment magazine serving the Sioux City metro area east into Western Iowa and north to the South Dakota border.
• Siouxland Magazine, quarterly magazine with community/lifestyle features.

Sports

• The Sioux City Bandits
  Sioux City Bandits
  The Sioux City Bandits are a professional indoor football team, currently a member of the American Professional Football League. They play their home games at the Tyson Events Center....
  
   are an indoor arena football team that plays for the American Professional Football League (APFL). The Bandits play their home games at the Tyson Events Center. They have been to the Indoor Football League playoffs five times.

• The Sioux City Explorers
  Sioux City Explorers
  The Sioux City Explorers are a professional baseball team based in Sioux City, Iowa, in the United States. The Explorers are a member of the North Division of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball.They were originally to be...
  
   are a non affiliated baseball team playing in American Association of Independent Professional Baseball league. The Explorers play their home games at Lewis and Clark Park
  Lewis and Clark Park
  Lewis and Clark Park is a stadium in Sioux City, Iowa. It is primarily used for baseball, and is the home field of the Sioux City Explorers minor league baseball team. It opened in 1993 and holds 3,631 people....
  
  . They have been to the League playoffs four times.

• The Sioux City Musketeers
  Sioux City Musketeers
  The Sioux City Musketeers is a Tier 1 junior ice hockey team playing in the West Division of the United States Hockey League .The Musketeers' home ice is Tyson Events Center.The Musketeers have had 15 players reach the NHL...
  
   are a junior hockey team based in Sioux City. They play in the United States Hockey League
  United States Hockey League
  The United States Hockey League is the top junior ice hockey league in the United States. The USHL has 16 member teams located in the Midwestern United States, consisting of players who are 20 years of age and younger...
  
   (USHL). They play their home games at the Tyson Events Center. Their first year of hockey was in 1972. The Musketeers have won the gold cup in the 1985-1986 season, the National Runner-up twice (1993–94, 1995–96), the Anderson Cup twice (1981–82, 1985–86), the Clark Cup three times (1981–82, 1985–86, 2001–02), and were the West Division Playoff Champions for the 2004-05 season.

• The Sioux City Roller Dames are a non-profit roller derby corporation. The Roller Dames play all home games at The Longlines Family Recreation center. The Dames hosted their first tournament in November 2008.

Transportation

Roads
Interstate 29

Interstate 29 in Iowa

In the U.S. state of Iowa, Interstate 29 is a north–south Interstate Highway which closely parallels the Missouri River. I-29 enters Iowa from Missouri near Hamburg and heads to the north-northwest through the Omaha-Council Bluffs and the Sioux City areas. It exits the state by crossing...

 is a major controlled-access highway

Controlled-access highway

A controlled-access highway is a highway designed exclusively for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated...

 in Sioux City and the surrounding area providing easy access of the 20 mile stretch covering Sioux City and the majority of its suburbs. It approaches the city from Omaha to the south before curving northwest along the Missouri River near downtown. The highway then enters South Dakota and curves back to the north as it approaches Sioux Falls. Interstate 129

Interstate 129

Interstate 129 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway which connects South Sioux City to Interstate 29 in Sioux City, Iowa. Opened in 1976, I-129 is a long route, running in Nebraska. At , Interstate 129 is the shortest highway in the state of Iowa...

 is an auxiliary Interstate Expressway that connects South Sioux City, NE to the north side of Sioux City and works as a bypass for travelers to other surrounding suburbs. Interstate 129 also interconnects with U.S. Route 75

U.S. Route 75

U.S. Route 75 is a north–south U.S. Highway. The highway's northern terminus is in Kittson County, Minnesota, at the Canadian border, where it continues as Manitoba Highway 75 on the other side of a closed border crossing. Its southern terminus is at Interstate 30 and Interstate 45 in Dallas,...

 which is in expansion to interstate form connecting Sioux City to Worthington, Minnesota

Worthington, Minnesota

Worthington is a city in Nobles County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 12,764 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Nobles County.The city's site was first settled in the 1870s as Okabena Station on a line of the Chicago, St...

. U.S. Route 20

U.S. Route 20

U.S. Route 20 is an east–west United States highway. As the "0" in its route number implies, US 20 is a coast-to-coast route. Spanning , it is the longest road in the United States, and the route sparsely parallels Interstate 90...

, the longest road in the United States spanning 3,365 miles (5,415 km) is also in the works of expanding from a two-lane highway to four-lanes from Sioux City, Iowa to Dubuque, Iowa

Dubuque, Iowa

Dubuque is a city in and the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States, located along the Mississippi River. In 2010 its population was 57,637, making it the ninth-largest city in the state and the county's population was 93,653....

 which will provide a faster and easier access for travel from the over crowded highway of Interstate 80 in Iowa

Interstate 80 in Iowa

In the U.S. state of Iowa, Interstate 80 runs east–west between the Omaha-Council Bluffs area and the Quad Cities area, serving Des Moines and Iowa City. It was built along the U.S. Highway 6 corridor and as a result, three sections of Interstate 80 overlap US 6 in Iowa...

.
Public/Mass Transit
Sioux City Transit

Sioux City Transit

Sioux City Transit, is the primary provider of mass transportation in Woodbury County, Iowa. Ten routes operate from Monday through Saturday. Via Route 9, a connection can also be made with the suburb of South Sioux City, Nebraska across the Missouri River....

, the local public transit organization, operates 16 bus lines within the city. Recently, the city added a new transfer station in Sioux City's Downtown Area. The Sioux City Paratransit serves members of the community who would otherwise not be able the travel by providing door to door service.

Sioux City also has several taxi companies that operate within the city.

Jefferson Lines

Jefferson Lines

Jefferson Lines is a regional intercity bus company operating in United States. The company's name originates in the Jefferson Highway, a north-south route in the early National Auto Trail system which once ran from Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, south to New Orleans, Louisiana. The service to...

 runs long-distance bus routes to Sioux City. Non-Transfer destinations include Winnipeg, Kansas City

Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

, Minneapolis, and Omaha

Omaha, Nebraska

Omaha is the largest city in the state of Nebraska, United States, and is the county seat of Douglas County. It is located in the Midwestern United States on the Missouri River, about 20 miles north of the mouth of the Platte River...

. There is no Amtrak

Amtrak

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak , is a government-owned corporation that was organized on May 1, 1971, to provide intercity passenger train service in the United States. "Amtrak" is a portmanteau of the words "America" and "track". It is headquartered at Union...

 passenger train service that passes through northwest Iowa.
Air Travel
One domestic airline, Delta, serves Sioux Gateway Airport

Sioux Gateway Airport

-History:The construction of Sioux City Army Air Base began in March 1942, about three months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Opened on 5 July 1942, it became a major training center during World War II for crew members of B-24 Liberators and B-17 Flying Fortresses...

 Delta also runs a reservation call center within Sioux City, originating out of the former JC Penney building.

Notable people

• John W. Aldridge
  John W. Aldridge
  John W. Aldridge was an American writer, literary critic, teacher and scholar. He was a professor of English at the University of Michigan, director of the Hopwood Program, USIA Special Ambassador to Germany and an esteemed literary critic.-Literary influence:Aldridge wrote penetrating assessments...
  
  , born in Sioux City, grew up in Tennessee, literary critic, author.
• Dave Bancroft
  Dave Bancroft
  David James "Beauty" Bancroft was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1930. He is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame....
  
  , Major League Baseball Hall of Fame shortstop; nicknamed "Beauty"
• Joe Bisenius
  Joe Bisenius
  Joseph Richard "Joe" Bisenius is an National Major League Baseball pitcher. A 6'5" right-hander, he formerly played in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.-College and draft:...
  
  , Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher and graduate of Bishop Heelan High School
• Tommy Bolin
  Tommy Bolin
  Thomas Richard "Tommy" Bolin was an American-born guitarist who played with Zephyr , The James Gang , and Deep Purple , in addition to doing solo work...
  
  , born in Sioux City, member of Deep Purple
  Deep Purple
  Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...
  
   and The James Gang who also had a solo career
• Mildred Brown
  Mildred Brown
  Mildred Brown was an African American journalist, newspaper publisher, and leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Omaha, Nebraska. Part of the Great Migration, she came from Alabama via Chicago and Des Moines, Iowa...
  
  , African-American journalist, worked in Iowa as a teacher before moving to Omaha and founding the Omaha Star
• Macdonald Carey
  Macdonald Carey
  Edward Macdonald Carey was an American actor, best known for his role as the patriarch Dr. Tom Horton on NBC's soap opera Days of our Lives...
  
  , actor; the longtime patriarch on Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives
  Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
  
  
• Matt Chatham
  Matt Chatham
  Matt Chatham is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He played college football at South Dakota.-High school years:...
  
  , born in Newton, Iowa, New York Jets
  New York Jets
  The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
   linebacker
• Dave Croston
  Dave Croston
  Dave Croston is a former tackle in the National Football League.- Career :Croston was the drafted in the third round of the 1987 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers. He had a one year career playing 16 games for the Packers in 1988. Croston played at the collegiate level at the University of Iowa.-...
  
   (1963– ) former NFL
  National Football League
  The National Football League is the highest level of professional American football in the United States, and is considered the top professional American football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing...
  
   player for Green Bay Packers
  Green Bay Packers
  The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
  
  
• Colonel George E. "Bud" Day, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam POW
  Prisoner of war
  A prisoner of war or enemy prisoner of war is a person, whether civilian or combatant, who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict...
  
  , recipient of the Medal of Honor
  Medal of Honor
  The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
  
  ; the United States' most highly decorated officer since General Douglas MacArthur
  Douglas MacArthur
  General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the...
  
  . The Sioux City Airport is named Colonel Bud Day Field in his honor as is 6th Street (Honorable Bud Day Street).
• W. Edwards Deming
  W. Edwards Deming
  William Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, author, lecturer and consultant. He is perhaps best known for his work in Japan...
  
  , raised in Polk City, quality-control expert; helped improve Japan's quality control
• Sharon Farrell
  Sharon Farrell
  Sharon Farrell is an American television and film actress.-Career:Born as Sharon Forsmoe in Sioux City, Iowa, she made her acting debut in the 1959 film Kiss Her Goodbye...
  
   (1940– ) actress (birth name Sharon Forsmoe)

• Bruce Forbes
  Bruce Forbes
  Bruce David Forbes is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church Born in Michigan, he grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota. His parents, Ernest Linwood Forbes and Marie Louise Forbes met in Rochester. Ernie eventually became a hospital administrator at Methodist Hospital in Mitchell. ...
  
  , author, professor of Religious Stuides Morningside College
  Morningside College
  Morningside College is a private, liberal arts college affiliated with the United Methodist Church located in Sioux City, Iowa. Founded in 1894 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, Morningside College is a private, four-year, co-educational liberal arts institution. Morningside has 21 buildings on a ...
  
    ^{relationship to Sioux City}
• For Today
  For Today (band)
  For Today is an American Christian metalcore band from Sioux City, Iowa, formed in 2005. They are currently signed to Razor & Tie. They have released one EP, Your Moment, Your Life, Your Time, and three full-length albums: Ekklesia on April 1, 2008, Portraits on June 9, 2009, and their third studio...
  
  , a Christian metal band signed to Razor & Tie Records
• Esther and Paulline Friedman, better known as Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren
  Dear Abby
  Dear Abby is the name of the advice column founded in 1956 by Pauline Phillips under the pen name Abigail Van Buren and carried on today by her daughter, Jeanne Phillips, who now owns the legal rights to the pen name....
  
  ; graduates of Central High School
• Peggy Gilbert
  Peggy Gilbert
  Peggy Gilbert, born Margaret F. Knechtges , was an American jazz saxophonist and bandleader. She was born in Sioux City, Iowa.-Biography:...
  
  , jazz saxophonist and bandleader
• Dan Goldie
  Dan Goldie
  Dan Goldie is a former tennis player from the United States who won two singles and two doubles titles. The right-hander and 1989 Wimbledon quarterfinalist reached his highest Association of Tennis Professionals singles ranking on April 17, 1989, when he became World No. 27.In 2011, Mr...
  
  , former tennis player, winner of 2 ATP singles titles
• Fred Grandy
  Fred Grandy
  Fredrick Lawrence "Fred" Grandy is a former actor best known for his role as 'Gopher' on the sitcom The Love Boat and who later became a member of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa...
  
  , television actor who played Gopher Smith on The Love Boat, was a U.S. congressman, former CEO of Goodwill
  Goodwill Industries
  Goodwill Industries International is a not-for-profit organization that provides job training, employment placement services and other community-based programs for people who have a disability, lack education or job experience, or face employment challenges...
  
  , and radio personality for WMAL Radio, Washington, D.C.
• Dick Green
  Dick Green
  Richard Larry Green , is a former Major League Baseball player.He was raised in Rapid City, S.D., where his ability as a baseball player was first noted....
  
  , raised in Rapid City, South Dakota, former MLB second baseman with the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics
  Oakland Athletics
  The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....
  
  
• William L. Harding
  William L. Harding
  William Lloyd Harding was from Sioux City, Iowa and the 22nd Governor of Iowa from 1917 to 1921.-Biography:Born in 1877 in Sibley, Iowa, Harding opposed extending voting rights for women and road improvements...
  
   (1877–1934) born in Sibley
  Sibley, Iowa
  Sibley is a city in Osceola County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,796 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Osceola County. It is named after Henry Hastings Sibley, a prominent General during the Dakota War of 1862, who eventually became the first territorial governor of...
  
  , the 22nd Governor of Iowa 1917–1921
• Jules Harlow
  Jules Harlow
  Jules Harlow is a rabbi and liturgist; son of Henry and Lena Lipman Harlow. He was born in Sioux City, Iowa.In 1952 at Morningside College in Sioux City he earned a B.A., and from there went to New York City to study in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America; here he became ordained as a rabbi...
  
  , conservative Jewish rabbi and liturgist
• Matthew C. Harrison, thirteenth president of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
  Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
  The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod is a traditional, confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States. With 2.3 million members, it is both the eighth largest Protestant denomination and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S. after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The Synod...
  
  
• Kirk Hinrich
  Kirk Hinrich
  Kirk James Hinrich is an American professional basketball player, currently a guard for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. He has also been a member of the USA National Team....
  
  , professional basketball player currently with Atlanta Hawks
  Atlanta Hawks
  The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. They are part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association .-The first years:...
  
  .
• Noah Holcomb
  Noah Holcomb
  Noah Holcomb is an American mountain biker. Holcomb is a 2008 and 2009 California State Champion in the discipline of Cyclocross...
  
  , professional cyclist
• Harry Hopkins
  Harry Hopkins
  Harry Lloyd Hopkins was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration , which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country...
  
  , Secretary of Commerce, moved to Council Bluffs
  Council Bluffs, Iowa
  Council Bluffs, known until 1852 as Kanesville, Iowathe historic starting point of the Mormon Trail and eventual northernmost anchor town of the other emigrant trailsis a city in and the county seat of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, United States and is on the east bank of the Missouri River across...
  
   shortly after birth, advisor to FDR during World War II
• Ryan Kisor
  Ryan Kisor
  Ryan Kisor is an American jazz trumpeter.A native of Sioux City, Iowa, Kisor learned trumpet from his father Larry Kisor and started playing in a local dance band at age ten. Kisor began classical trumpet lessons at age 12, met Clark Terry when he was 15 , and played with all-star high school bands...
  
  , jazz trumpeter
• George Koval, 1913–2006, Soviet atomic spy and only Soviet agent to infiltrate the Manhattan Project http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/12/us/12koval.html?hp
• Al McIntosh
  Al McIntosh
  Alan Cunningham McIntosh was editor of the of Luverne, Minnesota. He was president of the in 1949. The association now recognizes individuals who have provided exceptional service to the field of journalism with its Al McIntosh Distinguished Service to Journalism Award.Ken Burns included several...
  
  , born in Park River, North Dakota
  Park River, North Dakota
  As of the census of 2000, there were 1,535 people, 660 households, and 390 families residing in the city. The population density was 772.6 people per square mile . There were 760 housing units at an average density of 382.5 per square mile...
  
  , newspaper editor whose columns are featured in Ken Burns
  Ken Burns
  Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs...
  
  ' The War
  The War (documentary)
  The War is a 2007 American seven-part documentary television mini-series about World War II from the perspective of the United States that premiered on September 23, 2007...
  
  
• Jerry Mathers
  Jerry Mathers
  Gerald Patrick "Jerry" Mathers is an American television, film, and stage actor. Mathers is best known for his role in the television sitcom series Leave It to Beaver , in which he played Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, the younger son of archetypal suburban couple June and Ward Cleaver , and the brother...
  
  , Beaver Cleaver on TV's Leave It To Beaver
  Leave It to Beaver
  Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive but often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and his adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood...
  
  
• Daniel Matousek, lead singer and guitarist for The Velaires
  The Velaires
  The Velaires were a rock and roll band from Sioux City, Iowa. Formed as The Screamers, they soon after changed their name to The Flairs. However, after playing in the legendary Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines, and with numerous groups on the scene with that same name, they became The Velaires.The...
  
  , graduate of Central High School
• John Melcher
  John Melcher
  John Melcher is an American politician of the Democratic Party who represented Montana as a member of the United States House of Representatives, and as a United States Senator from 1977 until 1989.-Early life:...
  
  , United States senator from Montana from 1977 to 1989
• Lori Petty
  Lori Petty
  Lori Petty is an American film and television actress best known for playing "Tyler Endicott" in Point Break in 1991, "Kit Keller" in A League of Their Own in 1992, and the title role in Tank Girl in 1995.-Early life:...
  
  , born in Chattanooga, Tennessee
  Chattanooga, Tennessee
  Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in the US state of Tennessee , with a population of 169,887. It is the seat of Hamilton County...
  
  , actress best known for her starring role in A League of Their Own
  A League of Their Own
  A League of Their Own is a 1992 American comedy-drama film that tells a fictionalized account of the real-life All-American Girls Professional Baseball League . Directed by Penny Marshall, the film stars Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Tom Hanks, Madonna, and Rosie O'Donnell...
  
  
• Frances Rafferty
  Frances Rafferty
  Frances Rafferty was an American actress, dancer, World War II pin-up girl and MGM contract star.-Early life:Frances Anne Rafferty was born in Sioux City, Iowa, the daughter of Maxwell Lewis Rafftery, Snr...
  
  , MGM actress of the 1940s and early TV star best known for the sitcom December Bride
  December Bride
  December Bride is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS television network from 1954 to 1959, adapted from the original CBS radio network series that aired from June 1952 through September 1953.-Overview:...
  
  
• Ann Royer
  Ann Royer
  Ann Royer is a painter and sculptor living and working in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Her work consists mostly of abstract nudes and horses. She was born in Sioux City, Iowa in 1933.-Education and work:...
  
  , painter, sculptor
• Laurens Shull
  Laurens Shull
  Laurens Corning "Spike" Shull was an All-American football player who was killed in action during World War I. He played football, baseball and basketball for the University of Chicago from 1913-1916...
  
  , All-American football player killed in France during World War I
• Edward J. Sperling, born in Slutsk
  Slutsk
  Slutsk is a town in Belarus, located on the Sluch River south of Minsk. As of 2010 its population is of 61,400).-Geography:The town is situated in the south-west of its Voblast, not too far from from the city of Soligorsk.-History:...
  
  , Belarus
  Belarus
  Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
  
  , Jewish writer and humorist
• Paul Splittorff
  Paul Splittorff
  Paul William Splittorff Jr. was a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who spent his entire career with the Kansas City Royals. Listed at 6' 3", Splittorff batted and threw left handed.-Early years:Splittorff was born in Evansville, Indiana...
  
  , born in Evansville, Indiana
  Evansville, Indiana
  Evansville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Indiana and the largest city in Southern Indiana. As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 117,429. It is the county seat of Vanderburgh County and the regional hub for both Southwestern Indiana and the...
  
  , former Major League pitcher, attended college in Sioux City.
• Morgan Taylor
  Morgan Taylor
  Frederick Morgan Taylor was an American hurdler, winner of three Olympic medals. Morgan Taylor, from Sioux City, Iowa, competed in both track and field and football at Grinnell College...
  
  , set 400-meter hurdles Olympic record while winning gold medal in 1924
• Morgan Thomas
  Morgan Thomas
  Morgan Thomas was a Welsh-Australian surgeon and public benefactor.Thomas was born in Wales. He qualified for the medical profession and came to Adelaide in 1851. He was appointed first house surgeon to the Adelaide hospital and practised at Nairne and Adelaide...
  
  , jazz trombonist with Louis Prima Orchestra; recorded prolifically with Prima and Keely Smith in the 1950s and 1960s
• Ted Waitt
  Ted Waitt
  Theodore "Ted" Waitt is an American billionaire who was a co-founder of Gateway, Inc.- Biography :Waitt was born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa and attended the University of Iowa. Waitt and Mike Hammond started Gateway 2000 on September 5, 1985 with a $10,000 loan secured by Waitt's grandmother...
  
   co-founder of Gateway, Inc.
  Gateway, Inc.
  Gateway Computer Corporation, is a computer hardware company headquartered in Irvine, California, USA which develops, manufactures, supports, and markets a wide range of personal computers, computer monitors, servers, and computer accessories...
  
  
• Brian Wansink
  Brian Wansink
  Brian Wansink is an American professor in the fields of consumer behavior and nutritional science. He is a former Executive Director of the USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion ....
  
  , Cornell University professor and author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think
• Pierre Watkin
  Pierre Watkin
  Pierre Watkin was an American actor. He was a character actor in many films, serials and TV series from the 1930s through the 1950s, especially westerns...
  
  , actor in radio, films and TV from 1930s-1950s, most famously played editor Perry White
  Perry White
  Perry White is a fictional character who appears in the Superman comics. White is the Editor-in-Chief of the Metropolis newspaper the Daily Planet.White maintains very high ethical and journalistic standards...
  
   in the original Superman
  Superman
  Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...
  
   serials
• Tony Watson
  Tony Watson
  Anthony M. Watson is a left-handed relief pitcher currently on the Pittsburgh Pirates active roster....
  
  , current MLB pitcher (Pirates)
• Kathleen Weaver
  Kathleen Weaver
  Kathleen Weaver is an American writer and editor, who was born in 1945 in Sioux City, Iowa.Raised in Polo, Illinois, she went on to study art and political science at the University of Edinburgh. After, she earned a B.A. and M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California Berkeley ...
  
  , writer and editor
• Don Wengert
  Don Wengert
  Donald Paul Wengert is a former professional baseball pitcher. He played all or part of seven seasons in Major League Baseball from 1995 to 2001 for the Oakland Athletics, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Kansas City Royals, Atlanta Braves, and Pittsburgh Pirates.-External links:...
  
  , baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1995–2001
• Gerald W. Wolff
  Gerald W. Wolff
  Gerald W. Wolff is professor emeritus at the University of South Dakota, known for his specialization in the history of Native Americans, the American West, and national politics.-Background:...
  
  , retired historian of the American West and Indians
  Native Americans in the United States
  Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
  
  , is a former resident of Sioux City.

Sister cities

Lake Charles

Lake Charles, Louisiana

Lake Charles is the fifth-largest incorporated city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located on Lake Charles, Prien Lake, and the Calcasieu River. Located in Calcasieu Parish, a major cultural, industrial, and educational center in the southwest region of the state, and one of the most important in...

, Louisiana

Louisiana

Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

 (since 1995) Yamanashi City

Yamanashi, Yamanashi

is a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. In spite of the name, it is not the capital of the prefecture, which is Kofu.On June 1, 2011, the city had an estimated population of 37,927 with 14,453 households...

, Yamanashi Prefecture

Yamanashi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of the island of Honshū. The capital is the city of Kōfu.-Pre-history to the 14th century:People have been living in the Yamanashi area for about 30,000 years...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

(since 2003)

External links

• City website
• Sioux City History
• Sioux City 1848-1923
• Sioux City and Woodbury County 1890
• Attractions and Recreation
• Sioux City Journal (local newspaper)
• Sioux City Public Museum
• Saturday in the Park
• Siouxland.net (local arts and entertainment paper)
• History of the Stockyards