Oklahoma City, OK news and local guide

The city was a major stop on U.S. Route 66 and is named in the 1946 song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66." Its stockyards drew business from Chicago and Omaha. In 1928 oil was found within the city limits, even under the State Capitol, and Oklahoma City became a center of oil production. Tinker Air Force Base and the meeting of Interstates 35, 40 and 44 fed its growth after World War II. A "Great Annexation Drive" begun in 1959 expanded the city from 80 to about 475 square miles by the end of 1961, making it the largest U.S. city by land area at the time. In 1971 Patience Latting became the first woman to serve as mayor of a U.S. city of more than 350,000 people. On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh set off a truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. He killed 168 people, destroyed the building and badly damaged more than 100 others. It was the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. The site is now the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum. Sources Wikipedia: Oklahoma City