What's Your KCQ?

What do you love most about your Kansas City neighborhood or community? Tell The Star

“We have the very best view of Kansas City skyline,” said Laura Summa, co-owner of Chicago’s bar and restaurant on Central Avenue in Strawberry Hill.
“We have the very best view of Kansas City skyline,” said Laura Summa, co-owner of Chicago’s bar and restaurant on Central Avenue in Strawberry Hill. syang@kcstar.com

What do you love most about your neighborhood? We’d love to hear.

Covering almost 8,500 square miles and spanning a state line and a river, the sprawling Kansas City metro contains too many neighborhoods and communities to count.

Each has its own history, places to eat and hang out and intangible qualities that make those who live there proud to call it home. Maybe it’s the window seat at a cafe, that spot under the tree in the park, the bar on the corner, the way you can walk where you need, the generations that have lived there before you or the fact that you know your neighbors have your back—there is something iconic that makes your slice of Kansas City what it is.

Homes in Kansas City’s Westside
Homes in Kansas City’s Westside Rich Sugg rsugg@kcstar.com

We’re working on creating guides to some of Kansas City’s neighborhoods to celebrate different corners of the metro. There’s no way we’ll be able to cover all of them, but we are going to do our best to include a bunch.

But to do so, we’ll need your help.

We want to hear from you, what’s your favorite thing about your neighborhood or town? What’s your favorite spot in Kansas City to recommend to others? What are the classic go-tos, and what are the hidden gems?

A Midtown high-end two-bedroom loft at the Monarch Apartments with a view of downtown Kansas City in the distance.
A Midtown high-end two-bedroom loft at the Monarch Apartments with a view of downtown Kansas City in the distance. Shelly Yang syang@kcstar.com

Fill out the form below, and a reporter from The Star may follow up with you to learn more about your favorite places in the city, and why you love them.

This story was originally published August 4, 2022 at 5:00 AM.

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Allison Dikanovic
The Kansas City Star
Allison Dikanovic is The Star’s local government accountability editor. She’s been in Kansas City since 2021, previously leading the service journalism team. She has worked in newsrooms and classrooms in Milwaukee, Oakland and New York. She holds degrees from Marquette University and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
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