In this section

KC Best

Why I Chose KC

Top Ten Reasons to Move to KC

Made in Kansas City

Homegrown Celebrities

7 Things You Must Do in KC

Made in Kansas City

• Happy Meal
  In 1976 Bernstein-Rein, one of the largest advertising agencies in Kansas City, created the legendary McDonald’s Happy Meal promotion.
• Crock-Pot
  In the late 1960s, the Rival Co., then based in Kansas City, Missouri, purchased the Naxon Beanery All-Purpose Cooker from Naxon Utilities Corp. in Chicago. That was the basis for yet another great idea cooked up in Kansas City—Rival’s crock-pot.
• Jam Sessions
  No city engaged in jam sessions, or all night cutting contests, like Kansas City. For musicians like Lester Young and Kansas City-native Charlie Parker, these after-hours jam sessions were a way of life.
• M&M Candy Coating
  Circa 1940, the first candy to melt in your mouth, not in your hand was created in Kansas City at the MRIGlobal.
• The Fire Pole
  Chief Hale, fire chief of the Kansas City Missouri Fire Department from 1888-1902, was the inventor of the firehouse pole.
• What’s in a name?
  Kansas, and hence Kansas City, was named for the Kansa, or Kaw, Indians. Kansas means people of the south wind. Kansas first appeared on maps drawn by French explorers Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette.
• Underground Railroad
  The Quindaro Ruins in Kansas City, Kansas, where runaway slaves sought refuge upon their arrival in the free state of Kansas, is the largest underground railroad archaeological site in the country.