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Blackhawk Hotel in Downtown Davenport

...that, except in 1987, the United States presidential candidate who wins the Ames Straw Poll has always gone on to win the Republican Party's Iowa Caucus?
...that the LGBT rights group One Iowa held public forums during the landmark case Varnum v. Brien to discuss the importance of marriage equality?
...that the Blackhawk Hotel (pictured) in Davenport, Iowa, has been host to high-profile people including Carl Sandburg, Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, Jack Dempsey, Guy Lombardo and Stan Kenton?

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