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              Wednesday, October 22, 2025 
                                        
                            
          What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions abo...
        
      
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              Friday, October 17, 2025 
                                        
                            
          Eight crew members and 37 passengers — many from the Kansas City metro area — died in one of the deadliest air crashes in U.S. history. A book explore...
        
      
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              Sunday, September 14, 2025 
                                        
                            
          What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions abo...
        
      
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              Tuesday, July 29, 2025 
                                        
                            
          There's an open call for stories about Kansas City social movements from the mid- to late-20th century....
        
      
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              Sunday, July 27, 2025 
                                        
                            
          What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to answer questions about region...
        
      
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              Friday, July 18, 2025 
                                        
                            
          Throughout July, sparked by Independence Day celebrations, the Library considers what it means to have creative freedom....
        
      
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              Wednesday, July 16, 2025 
                                        
                            
          The Rosin Preservation Collection documents the firm's projects from 1998 to 2018. Thanks to their efforts, hundreds of buildings and historic sites w...
        
      
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              Friday, July 11, 2025 
                                        
                            
          The Library will house 'The CALL''s more than 70,000 photographs and mixed files containing research material, clippings, and ephemera....
        
      
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              Friday, July 4, 2025 
                                        
                            
          What's Your KCQ is a collaboration between The Star and the Kansas City Public Library series that answers your questions about the history, people, p...
        
      
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              Saturday, June 7, 2025 
                                        
                            
          What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions abo...
        
      