Kentucky Fried Chicken’s parent company announced that the restaurant chain’s U.S. headquarters would be leaving Kentucky. It’s the second time the chain would leave the state, having relocated its HQ to Nashville just after being purchased by Colonel Harland Sanders in the 1960’s.

KFC will maintain offices in Louisville, fund a $1 million endowment at the University of Louisville and open a flagship restaurant there.

Kentucky is losing a piece of its identity as Kentucky Fried Chicken, known these days as just KFC, decamps to Texas nearly a century after its founder began serving his childhood favorite at a