Des Plaines is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It has adopted the official nickname of'City of Destiny. ' As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,720. It is a suburb of Chicago, and is adjacent to O Hare International Airport. The Des Plaines River runs through the city, just east of its downtown area. Des Plaines is a very economically diverse city, with home values ranging from $30,000 to more than $1,000,000.

Geography
Des Plaines is located at (42.033848, -87.899786).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 14.5 square miles (37.6 km²).Of...

Des Plaines is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It has adopted the official nickname of'City of Destiny. ' As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,720. It is a suburb of Chicago, and is adjacent to O Hare International Airport. The Des Plaines River runs through the city, just east of its downtown area. Des Plaines is a very economically diverse city, with home values ranging from $30,000 to more than $1,000,000.

Geography
Des Plaines is located at (42.033848, -87.899786).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 14.5 square miles (37.6 km²).Of this, 14.4 square miles (37.3 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²) of it (0.76%) is water. Des Plaines is traversed by two interstate highways - I-90 Northwest Tollway and I-294 Tri-State Tollway.

Des Plaines is named for the Des Plaines River, which flows through it. The name is French,'of the plains. '

Portions of Des Plaines are underlain by the'Des Plaines crater,'an area in which the layers of sedimentary rock are highly abnormal. This probably represents an ancient meteor crater, 75 to 200 feet beneath the town. The bedrock was highly fractured by the impact, with large blocks of sediment upended. The crater was eventually filled by glacial activity, so that no trace now remains on the surface.