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Des Plaines
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What does Des Plaines mean?
proper noun
- A river in Wisconsin and Illinois, United States, which forms the Illinois River.
- A city in Cook County, Illinois, named after the river.
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The lake once discharged a part or the whole of its waters into the valley of the Des Plaines.