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Des Plaines

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What does Des Plaines mean?

proper noun

  1. A river in Wisconsin and Illinois, United States, which forms the Illinois River.
  2. 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.
George P. (George Perkins) MarshThe Earth as Modified by Human ActionProject Gutenberg ebook #6019