Des Plaines

[des pleynz]

noun

1. a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.

2. a river in SE Wisconsin and NE Illinois, flowing S to join the Kankakee River in forming the Illinois River; part of the Illinois Waterway. 110 miles (177 km) long.

Example Sentences

But when a Des Plaines teen went missing, a search for him led to the discovery of multiple bodies buried in the crawl space under Gacy’s home in 1978.

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Students at Cumberland Elementary School in Des Plaines, Ill., where a board was dedicated to cicada artwork.Credit...

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Just after noon on Nov. 27, 2022, a few days after Thanksgiving, Neal Greenfield and his daughter Kimberly Karsen were heading toward their car in Des Plaines, Illinois, outside Chicago.

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Geologic Survey has set up more than a dozen devices, including receivers in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers in Illinois; and the Sandusky River in Ohio.

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Rylan Wilder signed off this week on the settlement, nearly four years after a bullet fired by Des Plaines Officer James Armstrong tore a hole through his left arm, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

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