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Kansas City, Kansas, commonly known as KCK, is the third-most populous city in Kansas and the county seat of Wyandotte County. The 2020 census counted 156,607 residents. It operates under a consolidated city-county government called the Unified Government of Wyandotte County.
Kansas City, Kansas traces its origins to Wyandotte City, incorporated by the Kansas Territorial legislature on the 29th of January 1859, and founded in 1857 by Wyandot Native Americans and Methodist missionaries. The modern city was formed in March 1886 through the consolidation of five municipalities: old Kansas City, Armstrong, Armourdale, Riverview, and Wyandotte.
The Unified Government of Wyandotte County is a consolidated city-county government created when voters approved a consolidation proposition in 1997, the same year the Kansas Legislature passed enabling legislation. It merges the city of Kansas City, Kansas with Wyandotte County into a single jurisdiction that functions simultaneously as a municipal corporation and a county administrative division.
Roger Golubski was a retired Kansas City, Kansas police detective accused of sexual assault, protecting organized crime, and obtaining wrongful convictions through falsified evidence. A federal grand jury in Topeka indicted him on the 15th of September 2022, on six counts of sexual assault under color of law. He failed to appear at his trial on the 2nd of December 2024, and was found dead at his home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The University of Kansas Health System is the largest employer in Kansas City, Kansas, with more than 8,500 employees, according to the city's 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. Other major employers include the University of Kansas Medical Center, the Kansas City, Kansas School District, and the General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant, which manufactures the Chevrolet Malibu and the Cadillac XT4.
Kansas Speedway is a 1.5 mile tri-oval auto racetrack in the Village West area of western Wyandotte County, with turns that bank at 15 degrees. It held its first race on the 2nd of June 2001, when the Winston West Series ran the Kansas 100. The NASCAR Cup Series holds the annual Hollywood Casino 400 at the track.