Though it would be years away, removing the North Loop could reconnect downtown neighborhoods and open up acres of land for development, organizers say.

The city’s 1951 plan designated the South Midtown Freeway to connect downtown ... Davis (left), Kansas City mayor from 1963 to 1971, discusses the South Midtown Freeway with a Missouri highway ...

With several hundred thousand Kansas Citians expected to line Westport’s streets for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, ...

Many of the fears raised by neighbors did come to fruition — but in neighborhoods a couple of miles to the east.