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KC History
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025
What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions abo...
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Monday, January 20, 2025
On January 22, 1882, future architect William Drewin Wight was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1911, he joined his older brother, Thomas, in Kansas C...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Kansas City Restaurant Week is underway and continues through January 19. A new donation to the Library's Missouri Valley Special Collections has boos...
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Monday, January 13, 2025
On January 15, 1967, the Kansas City Chiefs lost to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I....
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Monday, December 30, 2024
KCQ looks at the 1953 abduction and murder of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease....
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Monday, December 23, 2024
On December 25, 1925, a string of Christmas lights hung over a doorway at the Country Club Plaza for the first time and began a tradition....
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Monday, December 16, 2024
Nell Donnelly and her chauffeur, George Blair, were kidnapped on December 16, 1931. Donnelly had become famous after the founding of the Donnelly Garm...
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Friday, December 13, 2024
In 1940, Works Progress Administration workers took photos of every building in Kansas City — houses, restaurants, shops, gas stations, and more. The...
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Monday, December 9, 2024
On December 11, 1884, Nelle Nichols Peters was born to a farming family in Niagara, North Dakota. She would become one of the most prolific architects...
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Monday, December 2, 2024
On December 7, 1940, the U.S. Army Air Corps announced that the Fairfax Industrial District in Kansas City, Kansas, would host a North American Aviati...