Winnebago River

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The Winnebago River is a river that rises to the north of Forest City, Iowa and flows through Mason City on its way to the Shell Rock River. It used to be just a creek, but upon the fame of Meredith Willson's "The Music Man", which has a mythical River City widely known to be based on his native Mason City, the locals felt compelled to promote their creek to a river.