[citation needed] In Kenner on May 10, 1870, "Gypsy" Jem Mace defeated Tom Allen for the heavyweight championship of the bare-knuckle boxing era; a monument marks the spot near the river end of Williams Boulevard.

During the 1960s, the construction of Interstate 10 and improvements to Veterans Memorial Highway aided the rapid development of Kenner as a suburb of New Orleans.

In 1982, Pan Am Flight 759 crashed in a residential area of Kenner when a microburst forced it down.

In October 2017, an explosion on the surface of an oil rig platform in Lake Pontchartrain north west of the Treasure Chest Casino injured 7 people.

The city of Kenner is located on the west side of Greater New Orleans, in Jefferson Parish.

Kenner's Hispanic Resource Center offers English as a second language classes and after school programs.

Kenner is part of Louisiana's 1st Congressional district, presently represented in the U.S. House by Steve Scalise.

[25] Kenner Discovery Health Sciences Academy, a public charter school, was founded in 2013.

[28] Previously, some areas were zoned to Grace King High School in Metairie.

Traveling westbound from the city line there are exits at Power Blvd., LA 49 (Williams Blvd.

In addition, the interstate, U.S. 61 (generally signed as Airline Dr.) travels east–west through the southern end of the city.

The Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (IATA: MSY), the main commercial airport for the New Orleans metropolitan area, is located within the city limits, just south of Interstate 10.