Des Plaines

(des plānz′)

city in NE Ill.: suburb of Chicago: pop. 59,000

Origin: prob. in allusion to the sugar maples (plaines in Miss. Valley Fr) once there

See Des Plaines in American Heritage Dictionary 4

A city of northeast Illinois, a suburb of Chicago on the Des Plaines River. Population: 57,000.

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