The Plaza branch will close early at 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, due to water line repairs.
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Monday, August 16, 2021
A reader recently asked ”What’s your KCQ?,” a community reference project with The Star and the Kansas City Public Library, about the early days of th...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Finding a beach during the dog days of summer can be a real problem for landlocked Kansas Citians. The quest often requires long-distance travel and c...
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Friday, August 6, 2021
Did you know that Kansas City was actually the training ground for what was supposed to be the first U.S. women’s Olympic basketball team? For this in...
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Friday, July 30, 2021
On Aug. 7, 1968, when the downtown Emery, Bird, Thayer department store closed for good, thousands of shoppers swarmed the huge building for a going-o...
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Friday, July 16, 2021
Prompted by our water-logged summer, Kansas City Star reader Bill Taft asked KCQ: “When Kay Barnes was mayor, she started the 10,000 Rain Garden initi...
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Friday, July 9, 2021
When the history of rock ’n’ roll in Kansas City is written — if it’s written — the year that will figure most prominently likely will be 1971....
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Friday, July 9, 2021
Seventy years ago this month, Kansas City was hit with a natural disaster that reverberates to this day – resurfacing in a recent query to “What’s You...
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Friday, July 2, 2021
When you think of Kansas City, you think of a – perhaps the – barbecue capital of the world. No matter the event, there’s a strong likelihood it will...
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Friday, June 25, 2021
With museums opening their doors as the pandemic wanes and summer begins, we set out to find the “hidden gems” that you can see in the Kansas City are...
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Friday, June 18, 2021
For this installment of “What’s Your KCQ?,” the joint project of the Kansas City Public Library and The Kansas City Star, Missouri Valley Special Coll...