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Plainfield is located in northwestern Will County. The village limits extend west into the eastern part of Kendall County. Plainfield is bordered to the north by the city of Naperville, to the northeast by the village of Bolingbrook, to the east by the village of Romeoville, and to the south by the city of Joliet. Farmland in Kendall County is ...
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.
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.
Will County is a county in the northeastern part of the state of Illinois.According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 696,355, an increase of 2.8% from 677,560 in 2010, making it Illinois's fourth-most populous county. [1]
Pages in category "Plainfield, Illinois" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The 14th and 11th districts are partitioned by The 14th takes in the communities of Joliet, Plainfield (shared with Kendall County), Shorewood, Crystal Lawns, Sunnyland, Crest Hill, Rockdale, Fairmont, Ridgewood, Ingalls Park, and Preston Heights; most of Romeoville; southwestern Naperville; western Bolingbrook; western Lemont; eastern Elwood ...
The Lincoln Highway was the first paved road in Plainfield. As the first transcontinental road in America, the road saw very heavy usage and was re-designated U.S. Route 30 in the 1920s. From 1940 to 1957, U.S. Route 66 ran concurrently with US 30 on the same section of Lincoln Highway through Plainfield, [ 1 ] creating substantial traffic.
Little is known about Flanders, other than that he was the first constable of Plainfield. By the time of his death, he had amassed a 300-acre (120 ha) land holding. The three surviving Flanders children received a one-third share in the building. [1] Only two buildings remain in Plainfield that were constructed before the Flanders House.