Illinois
Cook
Maine Township

Des Plaines

Des Plaines is in . It is an inner-ring, northwest suburb of Chicago with two distinct portions: a suburban northern portion reminiscient of other, nearby northwest suburbs, as well as a built-up southern portion with the businesses, hotels, and other amenities of the O'Hare Airport corridor.
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  • Type: Town with 60,700 residents
  • Description: city in Cook County, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “City of Des Plaines”, “Des Plaines, IL”, “Des Plaines, Illinois”, “Desplaines Station”, “Maine”, and “Rand”
  • Postal codes: 60016-60019
  • Neighbors: , , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Des Plaines station and Des Plaines Public Library.

Railway station
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Des Plaines is one of two commuter railroad stations on 's Union Pacific Northwest Line in Des Plaines, Illinois. The station is located at 1501 Miner Street, and lies 16.7 miles from the in .

Library
is a public serving the city of Des Plaines, Illinois. It is located at 1501 Ellinwood Street, in Des Plaines, Illinois.

Photo: Smokepacks, CC0.
The is a pine located in Des Plaines, Illinois, in the United States. It was featured in the cover art for the 2019 album 1000 gecs by the American musical duo 100 gecs; the tree has since become a popular attraction for fans.

Des Plaines

Latitude
42.0416° or 42° 2′ 30″ north
Longitude
-87.8874° or 87° 53′ 15″ west
Population
60,700
Elevation
633 feet (193 metres)
Named after
Des Plaines River
United Nations Location Codes
US DES and US PLG
Open location code
86JJ24R7+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153348576
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4889772
Wiki­data ID
Q386961
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Des Plaines” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ديس بلينس”
  • Basque: “Des Plaines”
  • Bulgarian: “Дес Плейнс”
  • Catalan: “Des Plaines”
  • Cebuano: “Des Plaines”
  • Chechen: “Дес-Плейнс”
  • Chinese: “Des Plaines”
  • Chinese: “德斯普兰斯”
  • Chinese: “德斯普蘭斯”
  • Croatian: “Des Plaines”
  • Czech: “Des Plaines”
  • Dagbani: “Des Plaines”
  • Danish: “Des Plaines”
  • Dutch: “Des Plaines”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديس بلينس”
  • French: “Des Plaines”
  • Georgian: “დეზ-პლეინსი”
  • German: “Des Plaines”
  • Gilaki: “دس پلینز (ايلينؤی)”
  • Gilaki: “دس پلینز”
  • Greek: “Ντες Πλέινς”
  • Haitian: “Des Plaines, Ilinwa”
  • Haitian: “Des Plaines”
  • Hausa: “Des plaines”
  • Hebrew: “דס פליינס”
  • Hungarian: “Des Plaines”
  • Icelandic: “Des Plaines”
  • Ido: “Des Plaines, Illinois”
  • Ido: “Des Plaines”
  • Irish: “Des Plaines”
  • Italian: “Des Plaines”
  • Japanese: “デス・プレーンズ”
  • Japanese: “デス・プレインズ”
  • Japanese: “デスプレーンズ”
  • Japanese: “デスプレインズ”
  • Korean: “데스플레인스”
  • Ladin: “Des Plaines”
  • Lithuanian: “Des Pleinsas”
  • Mazanderani: “دس‌پلینز (ایلینوی)”
  • Mazanderani: “دس‌پلینز”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Des Plaines”
  • Newari: “डेस् प्लेइन्स (इलियोनोई)”
  • Newari: “डेस् प्लेइन्स, इलिनोइ”
  • Newari: “डेस् प्लेइन्स, इलियोनोई”
  • Newari: “डेस् प्लेइन्स”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Des Plaines”
  • Norwegian: “Des Plaines”
  • Persian: “دس‌پلینز، ایلینوی”
  • Persian: “دس‌پلینز”
  • Polish: “Des Plaines”
  • Portuguese: “Des Plaines”
  • Russian: “Дес-Плейнс”
  • Serbian: “Дес Плејнс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Des Plaines, Illinois”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Des Plaines”
  • Silesian: “Des Plaines”
  • Slovak: “Des Plaines”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دس‌پلینز، ایلینوی”
  • Spanish: “Des Plaines (Illinois)”
  • Spanish: “Des Plaines”
  • Swahili: “Des Plaines, Illinois”
  • Swahili: “Des Plaines”
  • Swedish: “Des Plaines”
  • Talysh: “Des Plejns”
  • Talysh: “Des Pleyns”
  • Tatar: “Дес-Плейнс”
  • Turkish: “Des Plaines, Illinois”
  • Turkish: “Des Plaines”
  • Ukrainian: “Дес-Плейнс”
  • Urdu: “دےپلینے، الینوائے”
  • Urdu: “دےپلینے”
  • Uzbek: “Des Plaines”
  • Vietnamese: “Des Plaines, Illinois”
  • Vietnamese: “Des Plaines”
  • Volapük: “Des Plaines”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Des Plaines, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Des Plaines”
  • Welsh: “Des Plaines, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Des Plaines”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Des Plaines”. Photo: bogdanstepniak, CC BY 3.0.