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KANSAS CITY , 250 miles due west
of St Louis, straddles the state line between Kansas and Missouri.
Virtually all its main points of interest are on the Missouri
side, where the fountains, boulevards, and Art Deco and Mediterranean-style
buildings, and the encouraging revitalization of downtown, are
unusual and welcome features in a Midwestern city. Kansas City,
Kansas, on the other hand, is a sprawl of suburbs.
Kansas City was a convenient staging post for 1830s
wagon trains heading west. Its consequent prosperity and rough
and tumble "sin city" image was brought to an abrupt
end by the Civil War. However, its fortunes revived in the 1870s,
when the railroads brought the boom in meat packing that was responsible
for the development of the huge stockyards, which finally closed
down in 1992.
Thanks to political boss Tom Pendergast, an outrageous
figure with whom the city had a love-hate relationship, its many
jazz clubs continued to sell alcohol during Prohibition. As in
Chicago and New Orleans, speakeasies, brothels and gambling dens
went hand in hand with superlative jazz and,
to a lesser extent, blues spawning the careers of Count Basie,
Duke Ellington and, in the Fifties, Charlie Parker. KC's resurgent
jazz scene, fine restaurants, professional football and baseball
teams, and theme parks help make it a popular short-break destination
for the people of the western heartland.
