Kansas City: Home of the Royals
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June 2017
Life
Grid
'Giving Local Business a Global Voice.'
Annette Mertes Hadley - Local Editor
by Annette Mertes Hadley
Many people don’t know there are two Kansas Cities, nearly adjacent to each other but for the
Kansas and Missouri Rivers that divide the two states. South of the rivers, a street, cleverly named
State Line, separates Kansas City, Missouri from a number of suburbs on the Kansas side. Spanning
almost 8000 square miles across fifteen counties in both states, the greater Kansas City metropolitan
area is home to over 2.3 million people. So, when you hear people say they are from Kansas City,
they may not really live IN Kansas City. Missouri. Or Kansas!
Having been born in Chicago, I was a toddler transplant to the Kansas City area, along with my
parents, brothers and