Kansas City Pioneer Square monument in Westport features Pony Express founder Alexander Majors, Westport/Kansas City founder John Calvin McCoy, and Mountain-man Jim Bridger who owned Chouteau's Store. 1.6.1 Downtown Kansas City re-development.1.5.1 Troost dividing wall and white flight.Celebrated cultural traditions include Kansas City jazz theater, as a center of the Vaudevillian Orpheum circuit in the 1920s the Chiefs and Royals sports franchises and famous cuisine based on Kansas City-style barbecue, Kansas City strip steak, and craft breweries. The city is composed of several neighborhoods, including the River Market District in the north, the 18th and Vine District in the east, and the Country Club Plaza in the south. Other major suburbs include the Missouri cities of Blue Springs and Lee's Summit and the Kansas cities of Overland Park, Olathe, Lenexa, and Kansas City, Kansas. It serves as one of the two county seats of Jackson County, along with the major suburb of Independence. Sitting on Missouri's western boundary with Kansas, with Downtown near the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, the city encompasses about 319.03 square miles (826.3 km 2), making it the 23rd largest city by total area in the United States. Confusion between the two ensued, and the name Kansas City was assigned to distinguish them soon after. On June 1, 1850, the town of Kansas was incorporated shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory.
Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a port on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River coming in from the west.
Most of the city lies within Jackson County, with portions spilling into Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is the most populated municipality of the Kansas City metropolitan area, which straddles the Kansas– Missouri state line and has a population of 2,392,035. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 508,090 in 2020, making it the 36th most-populous city in the United States. Kansas City (abbreviated KC or KCMO) is the largest city in Missouri by population and area. Lee, Julia Lee, Jay McShann, Joe Turner, Mary Lou Williams, and Lester Young. Centered on the intersection of 18 th and Vine St., the jazz district nurtured such musicians as Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Andy Kirk, George E. But it was African American musicians, many associated with Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra and inspired by blues and ragtime traditions, that developed the Kansas City style-featuring complex rhythms, carefully restrained drum beats, and riffs in the late 1920s and 1930s. A white band, the Coon-Sanders Nighthawks Orchestra, became the first national radio sensation on Kansas City’s WDAF (one of just four U.S.
In the "wide open" environment of Kansas City in the 1920s and 30s, nightlife thrived, musicians established themselves, and the creative space allowed a unique style of jazz music to emerge.
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