25 Kansas City-related facts.

25 Kansas City-related facts.

Prepare for your next visit to the City of Fountains, where BBQ is a famous attraction. What are you waiting for? Pack your bags, reserve a flight from Detroit to Kansas City, and spend the weekend with your loved ones.

1. Kansas City, situated in Missouri and Kansas, features an international airport, baseball stadium, and football stadium, while Kansas hosts a professional soccer team and NASCAR race track.

2. Stand on State Line Road along the Missouri-Kansas border, allowing simultaneous access to both states.

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3. During the Civil War, Kansas faced clashes between abolitionists from Missouri and Missouri's fighters, leading to the state being dubbed "Bleeding Kansas."

4. Kansas City Stock Yards established early commerce with cattle, pigs, sheep, horses, and mules.

5. The American Royal Livestock and Horse Exhibition, founded in 1899, is the country's sole livestock event and continues to be held annually.

6. Kansas City's Garment District boasts top BBQs, thanks to Henry Perry's 1908 smoked meat business. Charlie, who later took over, enjoyed the delicious food at Charlie's eatery.

7. Joe's Kansas City, a more recent addition, was rated the greatest southern barbecue in the country by USA Today readers.

8. Rome, with 200 fountains, is considered the most urban setting in Paris, with early architects aiming for a more boulevard-like urban setting.

9. Jesse James, a notorious outlaw from Kansas City, stole banks, stagecoaches, and railways in the late 1800s. His gang invaded the Kansas City Fairgrounds.

10. Tom Pendergast, a leader of the Democratic Party, ruled the city during Prohibition. He coordinated illicit booze supply and manipulated elections to maintain power, including hand-picking Harry S. Truman as Missouri's next U.S. senator.

11. Vine and 18th streets thrive with jazz, showcasing the neighborhood's vibrant nightlife and music scene since the 1920s.

12. Charlie Parker, a notable jazz musician, was born in Kansas City in 1920.

13. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the United States houses memorabilia and displays on African-American baseball, featuring legendary players like Satchel Paige, Buck O'Neil, and Jackie Robinson.

14. Kansas City offers a fifteen-block radius of shopping options, including Country Club Plaza, with stores, restaurants, and a movie theatre. During Christmas, buildings are illuminated with Christmas lights, a festive experience for visitors.

15. Walt Disney attended Kansas City Art Institute's weekend sketching sessions during his elementary school years, relocating to Kansas City.

16. Kansas City's Union Station, built in 1914, served as a hub for Union during WWII, with an estimated one million passengers traveling through the station.

17. Union Station hosts Union's Liberty Memorial, the nation's sole World War I museum.

18. Boulevard Brewery, Southwest Boulevard, Midwest's largest specialty brewery.

19. The Light District, a commerce and leisure neighborhood, revitalizes the downtown region in 2008, excluding open container restrictions on the area's eight blocks.

20. Garmin and Sprint dominate Kansas City's GPS region, offering phone services.

21. Overland Park, Kansas, was the largest corporate headquarters for Sprint at the time, constructing a 200-acre facility.

22. Kansas City, Kansas, will become the first US city to receive Google Fibre, offering broadband internet service with up to one gigabit per second rates in 2011.

23. Sporting KC, a founding member of Major League Soccer, has twice won the MLS Cup, representing the Kansas City Wiz.

24. The Kansas City Chiefs, an NFL franchise, set a world record for the loudest NFL stadium in September 2014, producing 142.2 decibels of noise, despite only winning one Super Bowl.

25. The Kansas City Royals face the cross-state St. Louis Cardinals as their top adversary. The Cardinals reached the World Series playoffs for the first time in 29 years in 2014, and artist Lorde inspired her song "Royals" after a photo of former third baseman George Brett. Explore Kansas City by DTW flight bookings from Detroit to Kansas City.