Kansas City, Missouri This article is about the central town/city of the Kansas City urbane area.
Kansas City, Missouri City of Kansas City From top left: Downtown Kansas City from Liberty Memorial, Crown Center at Christmas, KC Streetcar, Washington Square Park, Union Station lit blue for the World Series, the Thinker at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Liberty Memorial, and the Library region of Downtown.
From top left: Downtown Kansas City from Liberty Memorial, Crown Center at Christmas, KC Streetcar, Washington Square Park, Union Station lit blue for the World Series, the Thinker at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Liberty Memorial, and the Library region of Downtown.
Flag of Kansas City, Missouri Flag Official seal of Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri is positioned in the US Kansas City, Missouri - Kansas City, Missouri Incorporated June 1, 1850 (as the Town of Kansas); March 28, 1853 (as the City of Kansas) Kansas City is the biggest city in Missouri and the sixth biggest city in the Midwest.
Enumeration Bureau, the town/city had an estimated populace of 475,378 in 2015, making it the 36th biggest city by populace in the United States.
It is the anchor town/city of the Kansas City urbane area, which straddles the Kansas Missouri border.
Kansas City was established in the 1830s as a Missouri River port at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west.
Sitting on Missouri's border, with Downtown near the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, the undivided town/city encompasses some 319.03 square miles (826.3 km2), making it the 23rd biggest city by total region in the United States.
Major suburbs include the Missouri metros/cities of Independence and Lee's Summit and the Kansas metros/cities of Overland Park, Olathe, and Kansas City.
Kansas City is also known for its cuisine (including its distinct ive style of barbecue), its craft breweries and its primary league sports teams.
Main article: History of the Kansas City urbane region See also: Timeline of Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri was officially incorporated as a town on June 1, 1850, and as a town/city on March 28, 1853.
The territory straddling the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers was considered a good place to build settlements.
Kansas City Pioneer Square monument in Westport features Pony Express founder Alexander Majors, Westport/Kansas City founder John Calvin Mc - Coy, and Mountain-man Jim Bridger who owned Chouteau's Store.
The first documented European visitor to Kansas City was Etienne de Veniard, Sieur de Bourgmont, who was also the first European to explore the lower Missouri River.
Louis in the lower Missouri Valley as early as 1765 and in 1821 the Chouteaus reached Kansas City, where Francois Chouteau established Chouteau's Landing.
They assembled the first school inside Kansas City's current boundaries, but were forced out by mob violence in 1833 and their settlement remained vacant. The Kansas City region was rife with animosity just before to the U.S.
Although the First Battle of Independence in August 1862 resulted in a Confederate States Army victory, the Confederates were unable to leverage their win in any momentous fashion, as Kansas City was occupied by Union troops and proved too heavily fortified to assault.
The boom prompted a name change to Kansas City in 1889, and the town/city limits to be extended south and east.
In 1900, Kansas City was the 22nd biggest city in the country, with a populace of 163,752 residents. Kansas City, guided by architect George Kessler, became a forefront example of the City Beautiful movement, offering a network of boulevards and parks. Long Building for the Long-Bell Lumber Company, his home, Corinthian Hall (now the Kansas City Museum) and Longview Farm.
Further spurring Kansas City's expansion was the opening of the innovative Country Club Plaza evolution by J.C.
At the start of the 20th century, political machines attained clout in the city, with the one led by Tom Pendergast dominating the town/city by 1925.
Several meaningful buildings and structures were assembled amid this time, including the Kansas City City Hall and the Jackson County Courthouse.
Pendergast may bear comparison to various big-city bosses, but his open alliance with hardened criminals, his cynical subversion of the democratic process, his monarchistic style of living, his increasingly insatiable gambling habit, his grasping for a company empire, and his promotion of Kansas City as a wide-open town with every kind of vice imaginable, combined with his professed compassion for the poor and very real part as town/city builder, made him bigger than life, difficult to characterize. Many also went north of the Missouri River, where Kansas City had incorporated areas between the 1940s and 1970s.
In 1950, African Americans represented 12.2% of Kansas City's population. The widespread characteristics of the town/city and its environs today mainly took shape after 1960s race riots.
At this time, slums were forming in the inner city, and many who could afford to do so, left for the suburbs and outer edges of the city.
The city's populace continued to grow, but the inner town/city declined.
In 1940, the town/city had about 400,000 residents; by 2000, the same region was home to only about 180,000.[clarification needed] From 1940 to 1960, the town/city more than doubled its physical size, while increasing its populace by only about 75,000.
Kansas City proper is bowl-shaped and is surrounded to the north and south by glacier-carved limestone and bedrock cliffs.
Kansas City is at the junction between the Dakota and Minnesota ice lobes amid the maximum late Independence glaciation of the Pleistocene epoch.
View of downtown Kansas City from the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center Further information: List of neighborhoods in Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Missouri, comprises more than 240 neighborhoods, some with histories as autonomous metros/cities or as the sites of primary affairs.
Further information: List of fountains in the Kansas City urbane region and List of tallest buildings in Kansas City, Missouri The four industrialized artworks up on the support towers of the Kansas City Convention Center (Bartle Hall) were once the subject of ridicule, but now define the evening horizon near the new Sprint Center along with One Kansas City Place (Missouri's tallest office tower), the KCTV-Tower (Missouri's tallest freestanding structure) and the Liberty Memorial, a World War I memorial and exhibition that flaunts simulated flames and smoke billowing into the evening skyline.
Kansas City is home to momentous national and global architecture firms including ACI Boland, BNIM, 360 Architecture, HNTB, Populous.
More than 30 full-time merchants operate year-round and offer specialty foods, fresh meats and seafood, restaurants and cafes, floral, home accessories and more. The City Market is also home to the Arabia Steamboat Museum, which homes artifacts from a steamboat that sank near Kansas City in 1856. Main article: Downtown Kansas City Downtown Kansas City and the Crossroads Arts District as viewed from Liberty Memorial (March 2016).
Downtown Kansas City is an region of 2.9 square miles (7.5 km2) bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the East, and State Line Road to the west.
Areas near Downtown Kansas City include the 39th Street District, which is known as Restaurant Row, and features one of Kansas City's biggest selections of autonomously owned restaurants and boutique shops.
Kansas City's Union Station is home to Science City, restaurants, shopping, theaters, and the city's Amtrak facility.
Downtown Kansas City itself is established by town/city ordinance to stretch from the Missouri River south to 31st Street (beyond the bottom of this map), and from State Line Rd.
After years of neglect and seas of parking lots, Downtown Kansas City presently is undergoing a reconstructionof change with over $6 billion in evolution since 2000.
Flowers in full bloom seen at Washington Square Park near Crown Center in downtown Kansas City (May 2016).
Kansas City lies in the Midwestern United States, as well as near the geographic center of the country, at the confluence of the longest river in the country, the Missouri River, and the Kansas River (also known as the Kaw River).
The town/city lies in the northern periphery of the humid subtropical zone. but is interchangeable with the humid continental climate due to roughly 104 air frosts on average per annum. The town/city is part of USDA plant hardiness zones 5b and 6a. In the center of North America, far removed from a momentous body of water, there is momentous potential for extreme hot and cold swings all year long.
Winters are cold, with 22 days where the high temperature is at or below 32.0 F (0.0 C) and 2.5 evenings with a low at or below 0 F ( 18 C). The official record highest temperature is 113 F (45 C), set on August 14, 1936 at Downtown Airport, while the official record lowest is 23 F ( 31 C), set on December 22 and 23, 1989. Normal cyclic snow flurry is 13.4 inches (34 cm) at Downtown Airport and 18.8 in (48 cm) at Kansas City International Airport.
A several areas of the Kansas City urbane region have had some harsh outbreaks of tornadoes at different points in the past, including the Ruskin Heights tornado in 1957, and the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence.
The region can also fall victim to the sporadic ice storm amid the winter months, such as the 2002 ice storm amid which hundreds of thousands of inhabitants lost power for days and (in some cases) weeks. Kansas City and its outlying areas are also subject to flooding, including the Great Floods of 1951 and 1993.
Climate data for Kansas City, Missouri (Downtown Airport), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1934 present) Climate data for Kansas City Int'l, Missouri (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1888 present) Kansas City has the second biggest Sudanese and Somali populations in the United States.
The Latino/Hispanic populace of Kansas City, which is heavily Mexican and Central American, is spread throughout the urbane area, with some concentration in the northeast part of the town/city and southwest of downtown.
The Historic Kansas City boundary is roughly 58 square miles (150 km2) and has a populace density of about 5,000 citizens per sq.
Between the 2000 and 2010 Enumeration counts, the urban core of Kansas City continued to drop decidedly in population.
The areas of Greater Downtown in the center city, and sections near I-435 and I-470 in the south, and Highway 152 in the north are the only areas of Kansas City, Missouri, to have seen an increase in population, with the Northland seeing the greatest populace growth. The federal government is the biggest employer in the Kansas City metro area.
Kansas City is one of ten county-wide office metros/cities for the US government. The Internal Revenue Service maintains a large service center in Kansas City that is situated in nearly 1,400,000 square feet (130,000 m2). It is one of only two sites to process paper returns. The IRS has approximately 2,700 full-time employees in Kansas City, burgeoning to 4,000 amid tax season.
The Bannister Complex is also home to the Kansas City Plant, which is a National Nuclear Security Administration facility directed by Honeywell.
Honeywell employs nearly 2,700 at the Kansas City Plant, which produces and assembles 85% of the non-nuclear components of the United States nuclear bomb arsenal. The Social Security Administration has more than 1,700 employees in the Kansas City area, with more than 1,200 at its downtown Mid-America Program Service Center (MAMPSC). The United States Postal Service operates postal services in Kansas City.
The General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant is in adjoining Kansas City, Kansas.
One of the biggest US drug manufacturing plants is the Sanofi-Aventis plant in south Kansas City on a ground developed by Ewing Kauffman's Marion Laboratories. Of late, it has been developing academic and economic establishments related to animal community sciences, an accomplishment most recently bolstered by the selection of Manhattan, Kansas, at one end of the Kansas City Animal Health Corridor, as the site for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, which researches animal diseases.
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and The National Association of Basketball Coaches are based in Kansas City.
H&R Block's new oblong command posts in downtown Kansas City.
The company improve is serviced by two primary company magazines, the Kansas City Business Journal (published weekly) and Ingram's Magazine (published monthly), as well as other publications, including a small-town society journal, the Independent (published weekly).
The Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank assembled a new building that opened in 2008 near Union Station.
With a Gross Metropolitan Product of $41.68 billion in 2004, Kansas City's (Missouri side only) economy makes up 20.5% of Missouri's gross state product. In 2014, Kansas City was ranked #6 for real estate investment. The following notable companies are presently headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri: The fountains at Kauffman Stadium, commissioned by initial Kansas City Royals owner Ewing Kauffman, are the biggest privately funded fountains in the world. The town/city has more boulevards than any other town/city except Paris and has been called "Paris of the Plains".
A view of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts as seen from the Kansas City Convention Center.
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre is the urbane area's top experienced theatre company.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City, established in 1958, performs at the Kauffman Center, offers one American intact opera manufacturing amid its season, consisting of either four or five productions.
The Civic Opera Theater of Kansas City performs at the downtown Folly Theater and at the UMKC Performing Arts Center.
Louis to form the State Ballet of Missouri, although it remained in Kansas City.
Kansas City is home to The Kansas City Chorale, a experienced 24-voice chorus conducted by Charles Bruffy.
Three of the new clubs were blown up in what ultimately ended Kansas City mob influence in Las Vegas casinos.
Municipal Auditorium and Bartle Hall Convention Center, Kansas City.
The large improve of Irish-Americans numbers over 50,000. The Irish were the first large immigrant group to settle in Kansas City and established its first newspaper. The Irish improve includes bands, dancers, newspapers, Irish stores and the Kansas City Irish Center at Drexel Hall in Midtown.
The first book that specified the history of the Irish in Kansas City was Missouri Irish: Irish Settlers on the American Frontier, presented in 1984.
The first casino facility in the state opened in September 1994 in North Kansas City by Harrah's Entertainment (now Caesar's Entertainment). The combined revenues for four casinos exceeded $153 million per month in May 2008. The urbane region is presently home to six casinos: Ameristar Kansas City, Argosy Kansas City, Harrah's North Kansas City, Isle of Capri Kansas City, the 7th Street Casino (which opened in Kansas City, Kansas, in 2008) and Hollywood Casino (which opened in February 2012 in Kansas City, Kansas).
The American Hereford Association bull and Kemper Arena and the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange Building in the former Kansas City Stockyard of the West Bottoms as seen from Quality Hill During the heyday of the Kansas City Stockyards, the town/city was known for its Kansas City steaks or Kansas City strip steaks.
The Kansas City Strip cut of steak is similar to the New York Strip cut, and is sometimes referred to just as a strip steak.
Along with Texas, Memphis, North and South Carolina, Kansas City is lauded as a "world capital of barbecue." In 2009, Kansas City appeared on Newsmax magazine's list of the "Top 25 Most Uniquely American Cities and Towns," a piece written by current CBS News travel editor Peter Greenberg.
See List of points of interest in Kansas City, Missouri Two universities have locations near the precinct (University of Missouri-Kansas City and the Kansas City Art Institute).
Country Club Plaza 2 Kansas City 18th & Vine District Cradle of distinct ive Kansas City styled jazz.
Westport District Originally a separate town before being took in by Kansas City, the precinct contains a several restaurants, shops, and eveninglife options.
River Market District/ Berkley Riverfront Park Kansas City's initial neighborhood on the Missouri River.
Crown Center 1 Kansas City Kansas City, North The town/city north of the Missouri River has a several attractions.
The award-winning Kansas City Zoo, encompassing some 200 acres, features over 1,000 animals from athwart the planet; it was ranked as one of the top 60 zoos in the United States.
Starlight Theatre, the second biggest outside musical theatre venue in the U.S., is also inside the park. There is also a soccer complex, in which the players of Sporting Kansas City practice.
The proportion of Kansas City region residents with a known theological affiliation is 49.7%.
Professional sports squads in Kansas City include the Kansas City Chiefs in the National Football League (NFL), the Kansas City Royals in Major League Baseball (MLB), Sporting Kansas City in Major League Soccer (MLS), and FC Kansas City in the National Women's Soccer League.
The Chiefs now a member of the NFL's American Football Conference (AFC) started play in 1960 as the Dallas Texans and they moved to Kansas City in 1963.
The city's current Major League Baseball franchise, the Royals, started play in 1969, and are the only primary league sports charter in Kansas City that has neither relocated nor changed its name.
The Kansas City Wiz became a charter member of Major League Soccer in 1996.
In 2011, the team was retitled Sporting Kansas City and moved to its new stadium Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas.
FC Kansas City began play in 2013 as an expansion team of the National Women's Soccer League; the team's home games are held at Swope Soccer Village as well.
In college athletics, Kansas City has lately been the home of the Big 12 College Basketball Tournaments.
Kansas City is represented on the rugby pitch by the Kansas City Blues RFC, a former member of the Rugby Super League and a current Division 1 club.
The team works closely with Sporting Kansas City and splits home-games between Sporting's training pitch and Rockhurst University's stadium.
1963 (as Kansas City Chiefs) National Football League Arrowhead Stadium Kansas City Royals Baseball 1969 Major League Baseball Kauffman Stadium Sporting Kansas City Soccer 1996 Major League Soccer Children's Mercy Park (Kansas City, Kansas) FC Kansas City Women's soccer 2013 National Women's Soccer League Children's Mercy Victory Field Kansas City Phantoms Indoor football 2016 Champions Indoor Football Silverstein Eye Centers Arena (Independence) Kansas City Blues Rugby Union 1966 USA Rugby Division 1 Swope Park Training Complex Kansas City Storm Women's football 2004 WTFA North Kansas City High School The rose garden in Loose Park, Kansas City's third biggest enhance park.
Kansas City has 132 miles (212 km) of boulevards and parkways, 214 urban parks, 49 ornamental fountains, 152 ball diamonds, 10 improve centers, 105 tennis courts, 5 golf courses, 5 exhibitions and attractions, 30 pools, and 47 park shelters. These amenities are found athwart the city.
Ward Parkway, on the west side of the town/city near State Line Road, is lined by many of the city's biggest and most elaborate homes.
Swope Park is one of the nation's biggest city parks, comprising 1,805 acres (730 ha), more than twice the size of New York City's Central Park. It features a zoo, a woodland nature and wildlife rescue center, 2 golf courses, 2 lakes, an amphitheatre, a day-camp, and various picnic grounds.
See also: List of mayors of Kansas City and Alcohol laws of Missouri City Hall, Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas City is home to the biggest municipal government in the state of Missouri.
The mayor is the head of the Kansas City City Council, which has 12 members (one member for each district, plus one at large member per district).
Kansas City holds town/city elections in every fourth odd numbered year.
Kansas City is the seat of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, one of two federal precinct courts in Missouri.
The Mayor, City Council, and City Manager are listed below: Kansas City hosted the 1900 Democratic National Convention, the 1928 Republican National Convention and the 1976 Republican National Convention.
The urban core of Kansas City persistently votes Democratic in Presidential elections; however, on the state and small-town level Republicans often find success, especially in the Northland and other suburban areas of Kansas City.
Kansas City is represented by three members of the United States House of Representatives: Missouri's 4th congressional precinct the southern portion of Kansas City in Cass County; presently represented by Vicky Hartzler (Republican) Missouri's 5th congressional precinct most of Kansas City proper in Jackson County, plus Independence and portions of Cass County; presently represented by Emanuel Cleaver (Democrat) Missouri's 6th congressional precinct all of Kansas City proper north of the Missouri River and plus suburbs in easterly Jackson County beyond Independence; presently represented by Sam Graves (Republican) Police respond to reports of a shooting near the intersection of 19th and Main in the Crossroads, Kansas City amid the early hours of New Years Day, 2016 Some of the earliest organized violence in Kansas City erupted amid the American Civil War.
After the war, the Kansas City Times turned outlaw Jesse James into a folk hero via its coverage.
James was born in the Kansas City metro region at Kearney, Missouri, and notoriously robbed the Kansas City Fairgrounds at 12th Street and Campbell Avenue.
In the early 20th century under Pendergast, Kansas City became the country's "most wide open town".
While this would give rise to Kansas City Jazz, it also led to the rise of the Kansas City mob (initially under Johnny Lazia), as well as the arrival of organized crime.
In the 1970s, the Kansas City mob was involved in a gang war over control of the River Quay entertainment district, in which three buildings were bombed and a several gangsters were killed.
The war and investigation led to the end of mob control of the Stardust Casino, which was the basis for the film Casino (although the manufacturing minimizes the Kansas City connections).
As of November 2012, Kansas City ranked 18th on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)'s annual survey of crime rates for metros/cities with populations over 100,000. Much of the city's violent crimes occur on the city's lower income East Side.
Revitalizing the downtown and midtown areas has been fairly prosperous and now these areas have below average violent crime compared to primary downtowns. According to a 2007 analysis by The Kansas City Star and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, downtown experienced the biggest drop in crime of any neighborhood in the town/city during the 2000s. Main article: List of schools of Kansas City Many universities, colleges, and seminaries are in the Kansas City urbane area, including: University of Missouri Kansas City one of four schools in the University of Missouri fitness serving more than 15,000 students Kansas City Art Institute four-year college of fine arts and design established in 1885 Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences medical and graduate school established in 1916 Metropolitan Community College (Kansas City) a two-year college with multiple campuses in the suburban urbane region Kansas City is served by 16 school districts including 10 Public School Districts.
There are also various private schools; Catholic schools in Kansas City are governed by the Diocese of Kansas City.
Kansas City, MO School District North Kansas City School District Kansas City Public Library earliest library fitness in Kansas City.
The Kansas City Star's new printing plant that opened in June 2006.
Main article: Media in Kansas City, Missouri The Kansas City Star is the area's major newspaper.
Weekly newspapers include The Call (which is concentrated toward Kansas City's black community), the Kansas City Business Journal, The Pitch, Ink, and the bilingual publications Dos Mundos and KC Hispanic News.
The town/city is served by two primary faith-oriented newspapers: The Kansas City Metro Voice, serving the Christian community, and the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, serving the Jewish community.
The Kansas City media market (ranked 32nd by Arbitron and 31st by Nielsen) includes 10 tv stations, 30 FM and 21 AM airways broadcasts.
Kansas City transmitting jobs have been a stepping contemporary for nationwide tv and radio personalities, prominently Walter Cronkite and Mancow Muller.
The primary broadcast tv networks have affiliates in the Kansas City market (covering 32 counties in northwestern Missouri, with the exception of counties in the far northwestern part of the state that are inside the adjoining Saint Joseph market, and northeastern Kansas); including WDAF-TV 4 (Fox), KCTV 5 (CBS), KMBC-TV 9 (ABC), KCPT 19 (PBS), KCWE 29 (The CW), KSHB-TV 41 (NBC) and KSMO-TV 62 (My - Network - TV).
Other tv stations in the market include Saint Joseph-based KTAJ-TV 16 (TBN), Kansas City, Kansas-based TV25.tv (consisting of three locally owned stations throughout northeast Kansas, led by KCKS-LD 25, affiliated with a several digital multicast networks), Lawrence, Kansas-based KMCI-TV 38 (independent), Spanish-language station KUKC-LP 48 (Univision), and KPXE-TV 50 (Ion Television).
Main article: Film in Kansas City Between 1931 and 1982 Kansas City was home to the Calvin Company, a large movie manufacturing company that specialized in promotional and revenue short films and commercials for corporations, as well as educational films for schools and the government.
Kansas City native Robert Altman directed movies at the Calvin Company, which led him to his first feature film, The Delinquents, in Kansas City using many small-town players.
The 1983 tv movie The Day After was filmed in Kansas City and Lawrence, Kansas.
Other films shot in or around Kansas City include Article 99, Mr.
More recently, a scene in the controversial film Bruno was filmed in downtown Kansas City's historic Hotel Phillips.
Today, Kansas City is home to an active autonomous film community.
The Independent Filmmaker's Coalition is an organization dedicated to expanding and grade autonomous filmmaking in Kansas City.
The town/city launched the KC Film Office in October 2014 with the goal of better marketing the town/city for prospective tv shows and movies to be filmed there.
Main articles: Kansas City Metropolitan Area Transportation, and Kansas City Metropolitan Area Trans World Airlines (TWA) positioned its command posts in the city, and had ambitious plans to turn the town/city into an air hub.
(Interstate 275 around Cincinnati, Ohio is the longest.) The Kansas City metro region has more limited access highway lane-miles per capita than any other large US metro area, over 27% more than the second-place Dallas Fort Worth metroplex, over 50% more than the average American urbane area.
The Sierra Club blames the extensive freeway network for excessive sprawl and the diminish of central Kansas City. On the other hand, the mostly uncongested road network contributes decidedly to Kansas City's position as one of America's biggest logistics hubs. Like most American cities, Kansas City's mass transit fitness was originally rail-based.
From 1870 to 1957, Kansas City's streetcar fitness was among the top in the country, with over 300 miles (480 km) of track at its peak.
On December 28, 1965, the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) was formed via a bi-state compact created by the Missouri and Kansas legislatures.
In July 2005, the KCATA launched Kansas City's first bus rapid transit line, the Metro Area Express (MAX).
On December 12, 2012, a ballot initiative to construct a $102 million, 2-mile (3200 m) undivided streetcar line in downtown Kansas City was allowed by small-town voters. The streetcar route runs along Main Street from the River Market to Union Station; it debuted on May 6, 2016. A new non-profit corporation made up of private zone stakeholders and town/city appointees the Kansas City Streetcar Authority operates and maintains the system.
In 2015, the KCATA, Unified Government Transit, Johnson County Transit, and Inde - Bus (all separate metro services) began merging into one coordinated transit service for the Kansas City region, called Ride - KC.
A 2015 study by Walk Score ranked Kansas City as the 42nd most walkable out of the 50 biggest U.S.
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