Des Plaines
Americannoun
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a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
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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
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In Chicago, where immigration agents terrorized residents all fall, officials at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in suburban Des Plaines are seeing the same even as they adopt security measures to reassure attendees.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
Students at Cumberland Elementary School in Des Plaines, Ill., where a board was dedicated to cicada artwork.Credit...
From New York Times • May 4, 2024
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.
From Slate • Dec. 17, 2023
It connects Lake Michigan and the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River, which pours into the Illinois River, which is lousy with invasive carp.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2023
After being forced back by the fire earlier, he went north and circled all the way around it until he located his sister-in-law’s house on Des Plaines Street.
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
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