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A 15-minute drive down Interstate 40 or historic Route 66 takes a person from the Canadian County seat of El Reno into the heart of Oklahoma’s capital. That, says El Reno mayor Matt White, helps explain El Reno’s attractiveness and population growth over the past decade.  “We can conduct business in Oklahoma City, but we have a hometown feel,” says White,...

Worms. Onion burgers. An old trolley. Artificial insemination of livestock. These may not seem to add up to anything, but they do in El Reno. These entities help to make the Canadian County seat an esoteric town, whether it’s on the one-mile rail circuit, at a trifecta of diners pounding grilled “ingerns” into their hamburger patties or in research facilities...