Des Plaines, Illinois "Des Plaines"
Des Plaines City of Des Plaines Flag of Des Plaines Flag Official seal of Des Plaines Named for The Des Plaines River Des Plaines /d s ple nz/ is a town/city in Cook County, Illinois, United States.
It is positioned on, and titled for, the Des Plaines River, which runs through the town/city just east of its downtown area.
Des Plaines is the home of the first franchised Mc - Donald's opened by Ray Kroc in 1955, which is preserved as a exhibition on Lee Street, north of downtown.
Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Ojibwe (Chippewa) Native American tribes inhabited the Des Plaines River Valley before to Europeans' arrival.
When French explorers and missionaries appeared in the 1600s, in what was then the Illinois Country of New France, they titled the waterway La Riviere des Plaines (River of the Plane Tree) as they felt that trees on the river resembled the European plane tree.
Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad began running its route, stoppingnear the foundry on the Des Plaines river, where a small company section had grown up.
In 1869, the Rand subdivision name was changed to Des Plaines, and the village of Des Plaines was incorporated. Des Plaines was reincorporated in 1873 and propel a village board the following year.
In 1979, Des Plaines was the site of the American Airlines Flight 191 disaster, in which a Mc - Donnell Douglas DC-10 departing from O'Hare lost an engine and wing material and crashed just short of a small-town trailer park.
In 2008, the Illinois Gaming Board awarded the state's 10th and last casino license to Midwest Gaming and Entertainment LLC to build a 140,000-square-foot (13,000 m2) casino on approximately 21 acres (85,000 m2) adjoining to the Tri-State Tollway at the northwest corner of Devon Avenue and Des Plaines River Road.
Des Plaines is positioned at 42 2 2 N 87 53 59 W (42.033848, 87.899786). According to the 2010 census, Des Plaines has a total region of 14.415 square miles (37.33 km2), of which 14.28 square miles (36.99 km2) (or 99.06%) is territory and 0.135 square miles (0.35 km2) (or 0.94%) is water. Des Plaines is traversed by two interstate highways I-90 (the Northwest Tollway) and I-294 (the Tri-State Tollway).
Des Plaines is titled for the Des Plaines River, which flows through it.
Portions of Des Plaines are underlain by the "Des Plaines Disturbance", an region in which the layers of sedimentary modern are highly abnormal.
Addresses in the town/city limits of Des Plaines have their own numbering system.
Areas in unincorporated Maine Township have Des Plaines postal addresses that follow the Chicago numbering system.
Devon Avenue in Des Plaines is 3200 South, while it is 6400 North in Chicago.
Golf Road runs through a large unincorporated region as 9600 North with a Des Plaines mailing address but is 0 North/South when entering the Des Plaines town/city limits.
For instance in 2003, territory at 9661 West Golf Road, Des Plaines, became 2323 East Golf Road, Des Plaines, when it was formally incorporated into the town/city limits.
A notable amount of Cook County inhabitants reside in unincorporated areas which use a Des Plaines zip code.
In the 2000 census the populace of these unincorporated areas of Cook County assigned Des Plaines zip codes was 25,617.
This unincorporated region has never been a part of the town/city of Des Plaines, and the majority of this region is separated from the actual town/city of Des Plaines by a belt of Forest Preserve lands and a Tollway barrier created by I-294.
As of 2010, the median income for a homehold in Des Plaines had risen to $63,528.
Major highways in Des Plaines include: China Airlines maintains their Chicago office in Des Plaines. It was previously positioned in Michigan Plaza in the Chicago Loop. The Des Plaines Forest Preserve surrounds the Des Plaines River and spans most of the easterly border of the city.
Des Plaines History Center Des Plaines Public Library Des Plaines Theater Oakton Community College, opened in 1969; a improve college with campuses in Skokie and Des Plaines Shawn Green, right fielder with the Toronto Blue Jays, LA Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks, and New York Mets; two time all-star; born in Des Plaines Jill Morgenthaler, US Army colonel; politician; homeland security adviser in Illinois; lived in Des Plaines Louis Blues, and Boston Bruins; born in Des Plaines Des Plaines is featured in the Left Behind series of novels as well as an American Girl book.
The majority of the hit 1985 film The Breakfast Club was filmed at the now-defunct Maine North High School positioned in unincorporated Des Plaines.
Des Plaines is the home of the first franchised Mc - Donald's opened by Ray Kroc, which is preserved as a "museum" on Lee Street.
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"1011 East Touhy Ave., Suite #110, Des Plaines IL60018" Wikimedia Commons has media related to Des Plaines, Illinois.
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