Question: In what city was the first NFL draft located that occurred at the Willard Hotel?

Context articles: Main and Eighth Streets Historic District
Tim Wrightman
List of Atlanta Falcons first-round draft picks
1943 NFL Draft
List of Kansas State Wildcats in the NFL Draft
Willard InterContinental Washington
List of Ohio State Buckeyes in the NFL Draft
Modern history of American football
1941 NFL Draft
2009 NFL Draft

Main and Eighth Streets Historic District is a national historic district located at Joplin, Jasper County, Missouri.
 The district encompasses 20 contributing buildings in the central business district of Joplin.
 It developed between about 1891 and 1929 and includes representative examples of Renaissance Revival and Colonial Revival style architecture.
 Located in the district is the previously listed Rains Brothers Building.
 Other notable buildings include the Marquette Hotel (c. 1916), Willard Hotel (c. 1901), Muir Block (1891), Stevens Hotel / Scottish Rite Temple (1899), and Hotel Blende (1899).
Timothy John Wrightman (born March 27, 1960) is a former professional American football tight end.
 He played for two seasons for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League.
 Wrightman played college football at UCLA and was drafted in the 3rd round by the Chicago Bears in the 1982 NFL Draft.
 But a contract dispute with the Bears led him to sign with the Chicago Blitz of the United States Football League, thus making him the first NFL draft pick who signed with the now defunct United States Football League.
 He won a Super Bowl ring with the Bears in 1985, and was re-signed to a two-year deal in 1986.
The Atlanta Falcons, a professional American football team based in Atlanta, are part of the National Football Conference South Division.
 They joined the National Football League (NFL) as an expansion team for the 1966 season and became the first NFL franchise in the Southeastern United States.
 They first participated in the 1966 NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting, more commonly known as the NFL Draft.
 In the NFL Draft, each NFL franchise annually seeks to add new players to its roster.
 Teams are ranked in reverse order based on the previous season's record, with the worst record picking first, the second-worst picking second and so on.
 The two exceptions to this order are made for teams that appeared in the previous Super Bowl; the Super Bowl champion always picks 32nd, and the Super Bowl loser always picks 31st.
 Teams have the option of trading away their picks to other teams for different picks, players, cash, or a combination thereof.
 Thus, it is not uncommon for a team's actual draft pick to differ from their assigned draft pick, or for a team to have extra or no draft picks in any round due to these trades.
The 1943 National Football League Draft was held on April 8, 1943, at the Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.
 This draft is the first NFL draft not to produce a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
This is a list of Kansas State Wildcats football players drafted into the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL).
 Kansas State has had a total of 144 players selected – including five players taken in the first round – from the first NFL Draft in 1936 through the 2017 NFL Draft.
The Willard InterContinental Washington is a historic luxury Beaux-Arts hotel located at 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. Among its facilities are numerous luxurious guest rooms, several restaurants, the famed Round Robin Bar, the Peacock Alley series of luxury shops, and voluminous function rooms.
 Owned by InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, it is two blocks east of the White House, and two blocks west of the Metro Center station of the Washington Metro.
As of 2016, the Buckeyes have the second most first-round selections in the history of the NFL Draft with 76, behind USC.
 They are third behind USC and Notre Dame for overall draft picks with 418 (as of 2014, will update after NFL Draft 2016).
 In the 2015 draft, the defending national champion Buckeyes had no players selected in the first round (no eligible underclassmen declared), the first time a championship team had gone without first round picks since the 2003 draft when the 2002 National Champion Buckeyes did the same.
 2004 saw the most Buckeyes selected in a single NFL Draft with 14.
 1998 is the only year, since the draft's inception in 1936, in which no Buckeye has been selected.
 The following are the lists of Ohio State players selected in the NFL Draft and NFL Supplemental Drafts since 1936.
The modern history of American football can be considered to have begun after the 1932 NFL Playoff game, which was the first American football game to feature hash marks, the legalization of the forward pass anywhere behind the line of scrimmage, and the movement of the goal posts back to the goal line; it was also the first indoor game since 1902.
 Other innovations to occur in the years after 1932 were the introduction of the AP Poll in 1934, the tapering of the ends of the football in 1934, the awarding of the first Heisman Trophy in 1935, the first NFL draft in 1936 and the first televised game in 1939.
 Another important event was the American football game at the 1932 Summer Olympics, which combined with a similar demonstration game at the 1933 World's Fair, led to the first College All-Star Game in 1934, which in turn was an important factor in the growth of professional football in the United States.
 American football's explosion in popularity during the second half of the 20th century can be traced to the 1958 NFL Championship Game, a contest that has been dubbed the "Greatest Game Ever Played".
 A rival league to the NFL, the American Football League (AFL), began play in 1960.
 In 1966, the NFL initiated the AFL–NFL merger between the two leagues.
 The merger lead to the creation of the Super Bowl, which has become the most watched television event in the United States on an annual basis.
The 1941 National Football League Draft was held on December 10, 1940, at the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C.
The 2009 NFL Draft was the seventy-fourth annual meeting of National Football League (NFL) franchises to select newly eligible football players.
 The draft took place at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, New York, on April 25 and 26, 2009.
 The draft consisted of two rounds on the first day starting at 4:00 pm EDT, and five rounds on the second day starting at 10:00 am EDT.
 To compensate for the time change from the previous year and in an effort to help shorten the draft, teams were no longer on the clock for 15 minutes in the first round and 10 minutes in the second round.
 Each team now had 10 minutes to make their selection in the first round and seven minutes in the second round.
 Rounds three through seven were shortened to five minutes per team.
 This was the first year that the NFL used this format and it was changed again the following year for the 2010 NFL Draft.
 The 2009 NFL Draft was televised by both NFL Network and ESPN and was the first to have cheerleaders.
 The Detroit Lions, who became the first team in NFL history to finish a season at 0–16, used the first selection in the draft to select University of Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford.