The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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Thursday, November 21, 2019
You won’t find Dallas, Missouri, on a current map. It’s no longer incorporated and, even when it was, the small settlement on the banks of Indian Cre...
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Monday, November 18, 2019
As sure as the morning commute, it’s time for another “What’s Your KCQ?” A KCQ readers asks: “Why does U.S. 71 (Bruce R. Watkins Memorial Drive) have...
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Thursday, November 7, 2019
Reader Tom Decock was curious about how the interstate highway system was incorporated into Kansas City’s urban landscape. With the Downtown Loop near...
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Friday, October 18, 2019
Kody Willnauer was looking at Google Maps one day and noticed that roads that run north and south on the Missouri side of the Kansas City area slan...
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Monday, October 7, 2019
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) started as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal to combat the crippling impact of the Great Depr...
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Friday, October 4, 2019
Kansas City and haunted houses have a long history. At one time, we were considered the haunted house capital of the world. We still have what is b...
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Thursday, October 3, 2019
It’s fall, y’all, and the Library is kicking off the Halloween season with a monstrously good mashup of haunted local history tales, scary story recom...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Known for her fiery rhetoric and fierce resolve, prohibitionist Carry Nation earned a national reputation by “smashing” saloons in Kansas and preac...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019
With Halloween right around the corner, we’re changing things up and asking readers, What’s Your KC Boooooo???...
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Thursday, September 12, 2019
Reader Bob Granger, a former printer/typesetter, asked “What’s Your KCQ?” — a series in which we partner with the Kansas City Public Library to answer...