[3] Hotels, saloons, and other new businesses opened over the next two years along with a post office and a toll bridge across the river to Wichita.

As a result, it became an area center of drinking, gambling, and prostitution for cowboys working in the cattle trade.

Gunfights occurred as well, including a fatal and locally famous incident between two saloon keepers in 1873.

In the late 1870s, the cattle trade relocated west to Dodge City, and Delano’s period as a rowdy cowtown ended.

[6] By the 1930s, the majority of Delano consisted of modest residential property built during the preceding three decades.

[6] In the 1950s and 60s, businesses and retailers began to leave the neighborhood since the aircraft industry relocated elsewhere in the city.

[2] For the purposes of representation on the Wichita City Council, Delano is split between Districts 4 (southwest Wichita) in the south half and 6 (near northwest Wichita) in the north[15] For the purposes of representation in the Kansas Legislature, Delano is located in the 25th district of the Kansas Senate, represented by Democrat Mary Ware, and the 95th district of the Kansas House of Representatives, represented by Democrat Tom Sawyer, the minority leader in the state house.

It is the site of a historical marker marking the location of the Chisholm Trail as well as a lighted fountain built in honor of Ben F. McLean, a former mayor of Wichita.

U.S. Route 54 runs east-west along the southern edge of the neighborhood as the Kellogg Avenue freeway, accessible via interchanges at Sycamore Street, Seneca, and Meridian.

[26] Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad operates a freight rail line which enters Delano from the northwest and exits to the southwest.