Kansas City, abbreviated as "KCK", is the third-largest city in the

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, and the

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of Wyandotte County. It is an inner suburb of the older and more populous

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, after which it is named. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 156,607, making it one of four principal cities in the

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. It is situated at Kaw Point, the junction of the

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and

rivers. It is part of a

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government known as the "Unified Government". It is the location of the University of Kansas Medical Center and Kansas City Kansas Community College.

History

In October 1872, "old" Kansas City, Kansas, was incorporated. The first city election was held on October 22 of that year, by order of Judge Hiram Stevens of the Tenth Judicial District, and resulted in the election of Mayor James Boyle. The mayors of the city after its organization were James Boyle, C. A. Eidemiller, A. S. Orbison, Eli Teed and Samuel McConnell. In June 1880, the

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, John St. John, proclaimed the city of Kansas City a city of the second class with Mayor McConnell present. In March 1886, "new" Kansas City, Kansas, was formed through the consolidation of five municipalities: "old" Kansas City, Armstrong, Armourdale, Riverview, Wyandotte. The oldest city of the group was Wyandotte, which was formed in 1857 by

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Native Americans and Methodist missionaries. In the 1890s, the city saw an explosive growth in population as a

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of Kansas City, Missouri. This growth continued until the 1930s. It was one of the nation's 100 largest cities for many U.S. Census counts, from 1890 to 1960, including 1920, when it had a population of over 100,000 residents for the first time. As with adjacent Kansas City, Missouri, the percentage of the city's most populous ethnic group, non-Hispanic whites, has declined from 76.3% in 1970 to 40.2% in 2010. In 1997, voters approved a proposition to unify the city and county governments creating the Unified Government of Wyandotte County.

Geography

According to the

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, the city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water.

Neighborhoods

Neighborhoods of Kansas City, Kansas, include the following: * Downtown *

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– former home to the silver smelter for which it was named; it was consolidated with Kansas City in 1910. * Armourdale – formerly a city, it was consolidated with the city of Kansas City in 1886. * Armstrong – a small town sitting on the northern bluff of the Kansas River, absorbed in the merger of Wyandotte, Kansas City, and Armourdale. * Arrickary Subdivision * Bethel – a neighborhood located generally along Leavenworth Rd., between 72nd and 77th Streets. It was never incorporated as a municipality. *

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District – an industrial area along the Missouri River. *

Hanover Heights The Hanover Heights Historic District area was developed between 1912 and 1930. It is a district containing 90 contributing buildings located between State Line Road and Rainbow Boulevard to Olathe Boulevard and West 43rd Avenue in Kansas Cit ...

* Historic Westheight * Muncie * Maywood – until the late 1990s, Maywood was a quiet, isolated residential area; it is now part of the "Village West" project that includes the Legends shopping and entertainment district, the Children's Mercy Park soccer stadium, Monarchs' Community America baseball park, the Schlitterbahn amusement water park, the Kansas Speedway racetrack and Hollywood Casino. * McGrew Grove * Nearman * Northeast Neighborhoods * Parkwood * Piper * Polish Hill * Pomeroy – a late-19thearly-20th-century Train Depot, Trading Post, Saw Mill, and river landing for barges to load and unload. * Quindaro Bluffs * Riverview – like Armstrong, a small town on the northern river bluff, absorbed in the merger of Wyandotte, Kansas City, and Armourdale. * Rosedale – consolidated with Kansas City in 1922. * Stony Point *

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* Turner – community around the Wyandotte-Johnson County border to the Kansas River north-south, and from I-635 to I-435 east-west. * Vinewood Kaw-point-aerial

* Wolcott * Welborn

Parks and parkways

* City Park Wyandotte County Lake Park Docks

* Wyandotte County Lake Park * Big Eleven Park * Boston Daniels' Park (Dedicated to the first Black Chief of Police in the United States)

Climate

Kansas City lies in the

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, 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 city lies in the

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(Köppen ''Dfa'') zone, with four distinct seasons, and moderate precipitation, and is part of USDA plant

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6. Being located in the center of

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, far removed from a significant body of water, there is significant potential for extremes of hot and cold swings in temperature throughout the year. Unless otherwise stated, normal figures below are based on data from 1981 to 2010 at Downtown Airport. The warmest month of the year is July, with a 24-hour average temperature of . The summer months are hot, but can get very hot and moderately humid, with moist air riding up from the

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. High temperatures surpass on 5.6 days of the year, and on 47 days. The coldest month of the year is January, with an average temperature of . Winters are cold, with 22 days where the high is at or below the freezing mark and 2.5 nights with a low at or below . The official record maximum temperature is , set on August 14, 1936, at Downtown Airport, while the official record minimum temperature is , set on December 22 and 23, 1989. Normal seasonal snowfall is at Downtown Airport and at Kansas City International Airport. The average window for freezing temperatures is October 31 to April 4, while for measurable () snowfall, it is November 27 to March 16 as measured at Kansas City International Airport. Precipitation, both in frequency and total accumulation, shows a marked uptick in late spring and summer. Kansas City is situated on the edge of the "

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", a broad region where cold air from the

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in Canada collides with warm air from the

, leading to the formation of powerful storms especially during the spring. A few areas of the

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have had some severe outbreaks of

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es at different points in the past, including the Ruskin Heights tornado in 1957, The Tornado Outbreak Sequence of May 2019 and the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence. The region can also fall victim to the sporadic

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during the winter months, such as the 2002 ice storm during which hundreds of thousands lost power for days and (in some cases) weeks. Kansas City and its outlying areas are also subject to flooding, including the Great Flood of 1993 and the Great Flood of 1951.

Demographics

According to the 2010 census, there were 145,786 people, 53,925 households, and 35,112 families residing in the city. The

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was . There were 61,969 housing units at an average density of . The median age in the city was 32.5 years. 28.4% of residents were under the age of 18; 9.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27.7% were from 25 to 44; 23.7% were from 45 to 64; and 10.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.4% male and 50.6% female. There were 53,925 households, of which 37.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.1% were

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living together, 18.9% had a female householder with no husband present, 7.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 34.9% were non-families. 28.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.68 and the average family size was 3.32. The racial composition of Kansas City, Kansas, as of 2010, was as follows: *

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: 52.2% * Black or African American: 26.8% * Native American: 0.8% *

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: 2.7% *

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: 0.1% * Other races: 13.6% *

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: 3.8% *

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(of any race): 27.8% * Non-Hispanic Whites: 40.2% As of the 2000 census, the median household income in the city was $33,011, and the median income for a family was $39,491. Males had a median income of $30,992 versus $24,543 for females. The

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for the city was $15,737. About 13.0% of families and 17.1% of the population were below the

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, including 23.8% of those under age 18 and 11.5% of those age 65 or over.

Economy

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data shows that employment in Wyandotte County, Kansas increased 4% from March 2011 to March 2012. The sharp rise in the number of workers resulted in Wyandotte County ranking 19th in the nation and 1st in the Kansas City metropolitan area for job growth as of September 28, 2012. Kansas City is the home to the

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, which manufactures the Chevrolet Malibu and the Cadillac XT4. The

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maintains its North Central Region Office in the city. In addition,

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and

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are based within the city. The largest employer is the University of Kansas Hospital. The adjoining University of Kansas Medical Center, including the schools of medicine, nursing, and allied health, is also among the city's largest employers (with a student population of about 3,000).

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is a business and entertainment district located at the intersection of Interstates 70 and

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. Anchored by the Kansas Speedway, tenants include Hollywood Casino,

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, AMC Theatres

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, Cabela's,

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, Monarchs Stadium, the home stadium of the

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of the

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, over three dozen restaurants, and Children's Mercy Park, the home stadium of the

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franchise. Schlitterbahn Vacation Village, a resort and waterpark, opened across I-435 from Village West in June 2009, however it has been closed since the end of the 2018 season. Kansas City was ranked in 2010 as the #7 best city in the U.S. to start over after foreclosure. Average rent in Kansas City is only $788, which is low in relation to the national average of $1,087 spent on rent. On March 30, 2011,

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announced that Kansas City had been selected as the site of an experimental fiber-optic network that it would build at no cost to the city. Kansas City was chosen from a field of 1,100 U.S. communities that had applied for the network. The network became operational in 2012.

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, became the first full community in the nation (based on actual residential votes and pre-registration counts) to have residential broadband internet network infrastructures using fiber-optic communication of 1Gbit/s download and upload speeds provided by

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Largest employers

According to the city's 2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the largest employers in the city are:

Government

City government

Kansas City, Kansas, has a

government in which the city and county have been merged into one jurisdiction. As such, it is simultaneously a city, which is a municipal corporation; and a county, which is an administrative division of a state. The Kansas Legislature passed enabling legislation in 1997 and voters approved the consolidation proposal the same year. The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department was founded in 1898. By 1918, the department had begun taking photographs and fingerprints of all the felons its officers had arrested. The Kansas City, Kansas Fire Department was founded on December 25, 1883. The fire department is part of the Firefighter's Relief Association and the International Association of Fire Fighters. IAFF Local 64 is a charter member and was organized on February 28, 1918. The department has 18 fire stations in the city, and covers an area of approximately 127 square miles. The department also has specialty teams including heavy rescue, hazardous materials, foam team, water rescue, tactical medic, trench rescue, high angle/rope rescue, and technical urban search and rescue. The fire department has four public service programs: a citizens assist program, fire prevention, safe place, and a smoke detector program. ;Mayor/CEO * Tyrone Garner ;Board of Commissioners * At-Large District 1: Melissa Bynum * At-Large District 2: Tom Burroughs * District 1: Gayle Townsend * District 2: Brian McKiernan * District 3: Christian Ramirez * District 4: Harold L. Johnson Jr. * District 5: Mike Kane * District 6: Angela Markley * District 7: Chuck Stites * District 8: Andrew Davis

Law enforcement

The

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performs law enforcement in the city and county. The department was established in 1898 with a staff of 46. Of the statistics available in 2000 based on data collected by the

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(FBI) as part of its Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which represent from arrests made by State and local law enforcement agencies as reported to the FBI, there were a total of 696 incidents.

Education

Colleges and universities

Private

Donnelly College Donnelly College is a private Catholic college in Kansas City, Kansas. The college offers bachelor's, associate degrees, and Nursing certifications. It is the only college or university in the state designated as a Hispanic-serving institution ...

Public

* Kansas City Kansas Community College * University of Kansas Medical Center (home of KU's Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions)

Public and private school districts

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* Piper USD 203 * Turner USD 202 *

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* Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas Catholic Schools

Secondary schools

Bishop Ward High School Bishop Ward High School is a private school, private, coed, Roman Catholic high school in Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City, Kansas, United States. It is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas. History Bishop Ward High Sc ...

* Fairfax Learning Center * J. C. Harmon High School * Kansas City Kansas Community College: Technical Education Center * Piper High School, Kansas City (

) *

F.L. Schlagle High School F. L. Schlagle High School is a fully accredited, public high school located in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. It serves students in grades 9 to 12 and is operated by the Kansas City USD 500 school district. The principal is Yolanda Tho ...

Kansas State School for the Blind (KSSB) Kansas State School for the Blind (KSSB) is a fully accredited public high school located in Kansas City, Kansas, U.S., serving students in grades Pre-K through 12. The school was established in 1867. It is located on located in downtown Kansas C ...

Sumner Academy of Arts & Science Sumner Academy of Arts and Science is a nationally ranked magnet school in Kansas City, Kansas which prepares students for high-level academic and creative pursuits. Named for abolitionist Charles Sumner, it started in 1905 during a period of ra ...

* Turner High School * Washington High School * Wyandotte High School, Kansas City

Public libraries

The

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system has five branch libraries spread throughout Wyandotte County: the Main Library, South Branch Library, Turner Community Library, West Wyandotte Library, and the Mr. & Mrs. F.L. Schlagle Environmental Library in Wyandotte County Lake Park. The system was formed in 1895. In 1899, it came under the authority of the Kansas City, Kansas Public School District Board of Education.

Transportation

River transportation was important to early Kansas City, Kansas, as its location at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers afforded easy access to trade.

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provides transportation for 60k riders daily. A portion of I-70 was the first project in the United States completed under the provisions of the new Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (though not the first constructed or to begin construction). I70Kansas

Major highways

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– To

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, Iowa, to the north and Wichita, Kansas, to the south. * Interstate 70 – To St. Louis, Missouri, to the east and Topeka, Kansas/

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, Colorado, to the west.

Spur routes and roads

* Interstate 435 – A bi-state loop through the Missouri and Kansas suburbs, providing access to

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. * Interstate 635 – Connects the Kansas suburbs with Kansas City, Kansas, and Riverside, Missouri, just north of Kansas City, Missouri. * Interstate 670 – A southern bypass of I-70 and Southern portion of the downtown loop. Signed as East I-70 when exiting from I-35 while traveling north. *US-24-40 – Combination of the

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and US-40 highways that pass through Kansas City. * K-5 – A minor freeway bypassing the north of Kansas City, Kansas, connecting the GM Fairfax plant with I-635. K-5 continues as Leavenworth Road west to I-435 then on to Leavenworth, Kansas. * K-7 – A freeway linking

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, Kansas, Wyandotte County, Kansas and Johnson County, Kansas. * K-32 – A highway that links

, Kansas, Wyandotte County, and Douglas County, Kansas.

Roads

* US-169, 7th Street Trafficway * South 18th Street Expressway * State Avenue and

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* Kansas Avenue and the

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Culture

Kansas City, Kansas, has a number of buildings that are listed on the

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. The city is home to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, which covers in eastern Kansas.

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is a 3,500-seat indoor arena/auditorium located in the city's downtown. The venue, which has a permanent stage, is used for public assemblies, concerts and sporting events. In 1887, John G. Braecklein constructed a Victorian home for John and Margaret Scroggs in the area of

. It is a fine example of the Queen Anne style

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erected in Kansas City, Kansas. RosedaleArchKCK

The Rosedale Arch, dedicated to the men of Kansas City, Kansas, who served in World War I, is a small-scale replica of France's famous

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. It is located on Mount Marty in Rosedale, overlooking the intersection of Rainbow and Southwest Boulevards. Wyandotte High School is a public school building located at 2501 Minnesota Avenue. Built in 1936 as a

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project, the school was later designated as a Historical Landmark by the city in 1985 and placed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 30, 1986. In 1889, the Wyandotte County Museum and Historical Society was established as a permanent repository of the county's history. The Argentine Carnegie Library, the only Carnegie library that exists in the metropolitan area, was built in 1917. The library has moved the collections and staff from Argentine to the new South Branch, at 3104 Strong Ave., a few blocks to the west and north, which opened September 26, 2012. The library has turned over the building to the Kansas City, Kansas USD 500. Other points of interest in the Kansas City, Kansas, area include Fire Station No. 9, Granada Theater, Hanover Heights Neighborhood Historic District, Huron Cemetery,

Judge Louis Gates House The Judge Louis R. Gates House is located at 4146 Cambridge Street in Kansas City, Kansas. Clarence E. Shepard was the architect of this example of a Prairie School residence. It was placed on the Register of Historic Kansas Places on July 3, ...

, Kansas City, Kansas Hall, Kansas City, Kansas Fire Headquarters,

, Schlitterbahn Vacation Village,

Quindaro Townsite Quindaro Townsite is a former settlement, then ghost town, and now an archaeological district. It is around North 27th Street and the Missouri Pacific Railroad tracks in Kansas City, Kansas. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Pla ...

Sauer Castle The Sauer Castle is an Italianate architecture home at 935 Shawnee Road in Kansas City, Kansas, built from 1871 to 1873. It was designed by famed architect Asa Beebe Cross as the residence of Anton Sauer. He had married Francesca in Vienna, Aus ...

, Scottish Rite Temple, Shawnee Street Overpass, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building, St. Augustine Hall, Theodore Shafer House, Trowbridge Archeological Site, Westheight Manor and Westheight Manor District, White Church Christian Church, Wyandotte County Courthouse and the Muncie area.

Media

Kansas City, Kansas, is part of a bi-state media market that comprises 32 counties in northeastern Kansas and northwestern Missouri. The Kansas City media market (ranked 32nd by

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and 31st by Nielsen) includes 10 television stations, and 30 FM and 21 AM radio stations. Due to its close proximity to the Topeka media market, most of the television and radio stations from that city are receivable over-the-air in portions of the Kansas City, Kansas, area. KCTV CBS is licensed to Kansas City, Missouri, but operates out of Kansas City, Kansas.

Newspapers

Kansas City, Kansas is served by the '' Kansan'', a daily newspaper which ceased its print publication and became an online-only paper in 2009. Newspapers serving the city's suburbs include ''The Record'' (serving Turner, Argentine and Rosedale), ''Piper Press'' (serving Piper) and ''The Wyandotte West'' (weekly publication for western Wyandotte County). Weekly newspapers include alternative publication ''

The Pitch The Pitch may refer to: * "The Pitch" (''Seinfeld'') * ''The Pitch'' (TV series), an AMC original series * ''The Pitch'' (podcast), an American podcast * ''The Pitch'' (newspaper), a newspaper in Kansas City * A segment in ''The Gruen Transfer ...

'', faith-oriented newspaper ''The Kansas City Metro Voice'', '' The Wyandotte Echo'' (which focuses on legal news), ''The Call'' (which is focused on the African-American community), business newspaper ''

Kansas City Business Journal American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ACBJ publishes The Business Journals, which contains local business news for 44 markets in the United States, Hemmings Motor News ...

'' and the bilingual publication ''Dos Mundos''.

Broadcast media

The major U.S. broadcast television networks have affiliates in the Kansas City market, including

WDAF-TV WDAF-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on Summit Street in the Signal Hi ...

4 (

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), KCTV 5 ( CBS), KMBC-TV 9 (

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KCPT KCPT (channel 19), branded on-air as Kansas City PBS or KC PBS, is a PBS member television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It is owned by Public Television 19, Inc., alongside adult album alternative radio station KTBG (90.9 FM) ...

19 (

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KCWE KCWE (channel 29) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is owned by Hearst Television alongside American Broadcasting Company, ABC affiliate KMBC-TV (channel 9). Both stations share studios on ...

29 (

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), KSHB-TV 41 ( NBC) and

KSMO-TV KSMO-TV (channel 62) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CBS affiliate KCTV (channel 5). Both stations share studios on Shawnee Mission Parkway in ...

62 ( MyNetworkTV). Other television stations in the market include

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-based KTAJ-TV 16 ( TBN), KCKS-LD 25,

Lawrence, Kansas Lawrence is the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state. It is in the northeastern sector of the state, astride Interstate 70, between the Kansas River, Kansas and Waka ...

-based

KMCI-TV KMCI-TV (channel 38) is an independent television station licensed to Lawrence, Kansas, United States, serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside NBC affiliate KSHB-TV (channel 41). Both statio ...

38 (

independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ...

), Spanish-language station

KUKC-LD KUKC-LD, virtual channel 20 ( UHF digital channel 14), is a low-powered Univision- affiliated television station licensed to Kansas City, Missouri, United States and serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. The station is owned by Media Vis ...

20 (

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), and

KPXE-TV KPXE-TV (channel 50) is a television station in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, affiliated with Ion Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station maintains offices on Oak Street and Cleaver Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, ...

50 ( Ion Television).

Sports

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Sporting Kansas City

The

franchise

(which was originally known as the ''Kansas City Wiz'' for its inaugural year in 1996 and the ''Kansas City Wizards'' from 1997 to 2010) currently plays its home games at Children's Mercy Park in the Village West district. The team originally planned to move to

Trails Stadium Children's Mercy Park is a soccer-specific stadium in Kansas City, Kansas, United States, and is the home of Sporting Kansas City. The stadium is located near Kansas Speedway, on the far west side of Wyandotte County, Kansas. It opened during th ...

, a planned stadium facility in Kansas City, Missouri, in 2011, but the project was scuttled in 2009. The developer of the planned venue moved the project to the Village West area, near Legends Field, and received the needed approvals in January 2010.

Kansas City Current

The Kansas City Current replaced the now defunct

National Women's Soccer League The National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) is a professional women's soccer league at the top of the United States league system. It is owned by the teams and, until 2020, was under a management contract with the United States Soccer Federatio ...

team

FC Kansas City FC Kansas City was an American professional women's soccer club based in Kansas City, Missouri. The team was one of the eight founding clubs of the National Women's Soccer League in 2012, and began play in 2013. They were two-time NWSL champions ...

which ceased operations in 2017. The Current played its inaugural season at

Legends Field (Kansas City) Legends Field is a baseball park in Kansas City, Kansas, located in the Kansas City neighborhood of Piper. It is the home of the Kansas City Monarchs of the American Association of Professional Baseball. It was formerly home of the Kansas City W ...

, but will play the 2022 season at Children's Mercy Park. The ownership has committed to building a soccer specific stadium across the state line in Kansas City, MO Berkley Riverfront Park.

Kansas City Monarchs

The

is an independent baseball team in the

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, which moved to Kansas City, Kansas in 2003 and through 2019 played its home games at Legends Field, located adjacent to the Village West development in western Wyandotte County. The team was previously a member of the

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(which was not affiliated with

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), until it dissolved following the 2010 season. While the remaining Northern League teams became members of the North American League as part of the Northern League's merger with the Golden Baseball League and

United Baseball League United League Baseball was an independent baseball league that operated in Texas. The league operated from 2006 to 2009. The league then temporarily merged with the Northern League and the Golden Baseball League to form the North American Leagu ...

, the T-Bones joined many other former Northern League teams in the relatively new American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. The T-Bones won the Northern League Championship in 2008 and the American Association Championship in 2018. The Unified Government evicted it from its stadium on October 14, 2019, for nonpayment of rent and utilities.

Auto racing

The Kansas Speedway is an auto racetrack adjacent to the Village West area in western Wyandotte County. The speedway, which is used for races that are part of the

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and other racing series, is a

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with turns which bank at a 15° angle. The track held its first race on June 2, 2001, when the

Winston West Series The ARCA Menards Series West, formerly the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, NASCAR AutoZone West Series, NASCAR Winston West Series and NASCAR Camping World West Series, is a regional stock car racing series owned and operated by the Automobile Raci ...

contested the Kansas 100. The top-level NASCAR Cup Series holds the annual Hollywood Casino 400 at the track. The IndyCar Series previously ran the

RoadRunner Turbo Indy 300 The RoadRunner Turbo Indy 300 at Kansas was an IndyCar Series race held at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. The IRL Indycar Series debuted the race in 2001. The first Indy/Championship races in the Kansas City area city took place in 1922 ...

from 2001 to 2010; with IndyCar driver

Scott Dixon Scott Ronald Dixon (born 22 July 1980) is a professional racing driver from New Zealand, who competes in the NTT IndyCar Series for Chip Ganassi Racing. Dixon has won the IndyCar championship six times: in 2003, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2018 and 202 ...

setting the overall lap record for all series.

Notable people

Notable individuals who were born in or have lived in Kansas City, Kansas include actor Ed Asner, jazz saxophonist

Charlie Parker Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form ...

, Olympic track and field athlete Maurice Greene, Muppet performer Matt Vogel, and musician and actress Janelle Monáe.

Notes

References

External links

Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City, KS/Wyandotte County Convention and Visitors Bureau

Kansas City map
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