In Sunday’s print Des Moines Register, on the “Around the State” page, there was this curious item:
In a page that is about stories from the state of Iowa, the Register ran a brief from a city in ILLINOIS — a suburb of the Quad Cities. The dateline on WQAD’s original April 2 story specifically says “Colona, Ill.”
Did someone mistake Colona for the identically pronounced eastern Iowa city of Kalona? The item came from a TV station that covers Iowa, after all. But the dateline said Illinois, and it can easily be double-checked on a map.