Kansas City celebrated its hundredth birthday with a locomotive crossing a half-finished stage; the theatre it christened never stopped. Starlight Theatre at 4600 Starlight Road in Swope Park opened on 3 June 1950 with Thrills of a Century, a civic pageant that restaged the Battle of Westport and rolled the original Hannibal Bridge locomotive across specially built rails while construction crews finished the seats. The idea was decades older - the Kansas City Federation of Music Clubs proposed .....

The Kansas City Chiefs once practised on this ground; now it grows soccer players instead. Swope Soccer Village at 6310 Lewis Road, inside Kansas City's vast Swope Park - one of the largest municipal parks in the country - was first dedicated on 13 July 2007 as the training home of the Kansas City Wizards, on the land that had served as the Chiefs' practice field before Arrowhead Stadium opened in 1972. The complex is a public-private partnership between the city's parks department and Sporting .....