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Plainfield, Illinois was founded in August 1834 by Chester Ingersoll, who platted a town just north of the 1828 settlement of Walker's Corners. In December that year, Levi Arnold bought the land directly north of Ingersoll's and began to subdivide it; this area would later become the historic district.
He also constructed a gristmill and a mill race west of Water Street, which would later become Plainfield-Naperville Road. Ingersoll's "Planefield" (Plainfield) which comprised lots in Section 16, along with Mather's East Plainfield lots in Section 10 and Levi Arnold's plat of Section 9, all became joined to create the present-day village after ...
Immediately after crossing the DuPage River, it turns northeast onto Main Street, bypassing Downtown Plainfield, and intersects the concurrency of US 30 and IL 59 at North Division Street. It continues northeastward out of Plainfield on Main Street until it ends at an intersection with I-55. There is no access to IL 126 from northbound I-55.
In 1971, US 30 Alt. in Illinois was discontinued, renamed as IL 38 west of Westchester, and dropped through the city of Chicago. [2] Since a 2008 realignment, US 30 passes a mile (1.6 km) to the north of downtown Plainfield on 143rd Street, then turns south onto IL 59 (Division Street) for approximately one mile (1.6 km). Southeast of downtown ...
Plainfield Township is located in Will County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 80,318 and it contained 25,333 housing units. [ 2 ] Plainfield Township government serves the residents in the Illinois communities of Plainfield, Joliet, Romeoville and Crest Hill.
Court Street, Crete-Monee Road in Monee: Will Center Road — — CR 14: 5.232: 8.420 127th Street in Plainfield: 87th Street in Naperville: Plainfield-Naperville Road — — Plainfield-Naperville Road continues north as DuPage CR 1 CR 16: 3.004: 4.834 IL 7 (159th Street) in Homer Glen: North Will-Cook county line in Lemont: Bell Road — —
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Illinois Place Names. Springfield. Illinois State Historical Society. 1989. Pgs. 454, 522, 550. Wiss, Janney. Rural Historic Structural Survey of Wheatland, Plainfield and Lockport Townships Will County, Illinois. Elstner and Associates. Chicago, Illinois. 2000. Plat Map of Wheatland Township, Will County by Burnhans and Van Vechten Publishers ...