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Where is Midtown Kansas City, Anyway?

By Aaron Couch

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Kansas City, MO – All day at KCUR, we announce the "weather in midtown." A listener recently wrote in to inform us that he doesn't think our studio, located at 48th and Troost, is located in what he considers midtown Kansas City.

That got us thinking, where is midtown, anyway? Is there a definitive answer?

KC Currents sent intern Aaron Couch out to look for a definition.

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