City Skylines: Kansas City

Though usually trumped by nearby Independence, Missouri in terms of perceived historical importance, Kansas City won the population and commercial battles later on and is one of the larger cities of the Midwest.  As such, it has one of the larger skylines of most cities in the eastern Great Plains.

While nothing like the grand skylines of Chicago or St. Louis, this one does stick out of an otherwise very rural landscape dotted with cities much smaller in scale, such as Topeka and Omaha.

As you can see, the landscape is rolling and well-forested.  Kansas City sits on the confluence of two great rivers and the gentle valleys associated with them.