Des Plaines
Des Plaines is in Chicagoland. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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: Chicago, Elk Grove Village, Glenview, Park Ridge, and Rosemont
Places of Interest
Highlights include Des Plaines station and Des Plaines Public Library.
Des Plaines station
Railway station
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Des Plaines is one of two commuter railroad stations on Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line in Des Plaines, Illinois. The station is located at 1501 Miner Street, and lies 16.7 miles from the Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago.
Des Plaines Public Library
Library
Des Plaines Public Library is a public library serving the city of Des Plaines, Illinois. It is located at 1501 Ellinwood Street, in Des Plaines, Illinois.
100 gecs tree
Photo: Smokepacks, CC0.
The 100 gecs tree 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
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Maine Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.0416° or 42° 2′ 30″ northLongitude
-87.8874° or 87° 53′ 15″ westPopulation
60,700Elevation
633 feet (193 metres)Named after
Des Plaines RiverOpen location code
86JJ24R7+J2OpenStreetMap ID
node 153348576OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4889772Wikidata 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.