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White City is a city in Morris County that was founded in 1871 by a colony organized in Chicago under Reverend Pierce, who led about forty families west to make new homes in Kansas.

White City was named for F.C. White, superintendent of the Neosho division of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (Katy) Railroad, which had been built through the land in 1868, before the town existed.

Before settling on White City, the founders considered the names 'New Chicago,' because they came from Chicago, and 'Swedeland,' because so many Swedish settlers joined the community.

White City's first post office was established in January 1872, and the city was incorporated in 1885.

White City is known as the 'Little City on the Hill' because it sits at one of the highest elevations in the Flint Hills, along Kansas Highway 4 about 24 miles northwest of Council Grove.

White City's population peaked at 652 in 1920; the 2020 census counted 447 people, down from 618 in 2010, when the city had 238 households.

In 1887 the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a second main line through White City from Topeka to Herington, a line most locals still call the 'Rock Island.'

White City students attend Rural Vista USD 481, where the school mascot is the Huskies, though in most sports White City consolidates with Hope to compete as the Rural Vista Heat.

White City has a humid subtropical climate, with hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.