Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 22851
Land area (2000): 14.423391 sq. miles (37.356410 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.110621 sq. miles (0.286507 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.534012 sq. miles (37.642917 sq. km)
FIPS code: 19642
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 42.033848 N, 87.899786 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60016
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Des Plaines
Usage examples of "des plaines".
Ebbans wanted to be: standing in the exact position of the man he was talking to, the man leaning on the bent branch beside the muddy Des Plaines and connected to a hook sunk in murky water by twenty feet of fishing line via a Sears rod and reel.
He couldn't wait to compete with whatever toy the GC was using in its stakeout in Des Plaines.
Soon after his visit to California, Kroc became McDonald's national franchising agent, in 1955 selling himself his first McDonald's franchise, which he located in Des Plaines, Illinois.
The place they were taken to was a grimy white cinderblock building in Des Plaines.
Sam Bryant stepped into his cab, gave the driver a number on Oakwood Avenue in Des Plaines, and settled back to scan.
Bat biologist Edward Stashko of Oakton College, Des Plaines, Illinois, estimates that less than one-half of 1 percent of bats are rabid.