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The Des Plaines River Trail is a recreational multiuse trail that follows the course of the Des Plaines River through most of Lake and part of Cook County in northeast Illinois in the United States. This trail connects with the North Branch Trail and Green Bay Trail. Trail uses include hiking/walking, bicycling, equestrian, and even winter ...
Salt Creek is a 43.4-mile-long (69.8 km) [1] stream in northeastern Illinois. [2] It is an important tributary of the Des Plaines River, part of the Illinois River and ultimately the Mississippi River watersheds. It rises in northwest Cook County at Wilke Marsh in Palatine and flows in a meandering course generally southward through DuPage ...
In 2016, a tree-top zipline course was opened in west Cook County's Bemis Woods. [10] Eight significant waterways flow, at least in part, through lands in the Forest Preserve District: the Chicago River, the Des Plaines River, the Little Calumet River, Salt Creek, Poplar Creek, Thorn Creek, Crooked Creek, and Tinley Creek.
The Des Plaines River was named by early French coureurs de bois sometime between the 17th and 18th centuries, after the trees lining the banks of the river. The word la plaine, in the 18th-century Mississippi Valley dialect of French spoken at the time, referred to either the American sycamore or the red maple, both of which resembled the European plane tree either in their palmate leaves or ...
October 15, 1966. The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site commemorating the importance of the Chicago Portage [2] in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located in Chicago Portage Forest Preserve and the Ottawa Trail Woods Forest Preserve, at the junction of Portage Creek with the Des Plaines River ...
Location. (historic dividing point) 3100 West 31st Street, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, US. Range. Valparaiso Moraine. Coordinates. 41°50′14″N 87°42′8″W / 41.83722°N 87.70222°W / 41.83722; -87.70222. The Chicago Portage was an ancient portage that connected the Great Lakes waterway system with the Mississippi River ...
Lake Cook Road (alternatively referred to as County Line Road or Main Street in some areas) is a major east–west highway in Cook, Lake, McHenry, and Kane Counties in Illinois. For much of its length, it marks the border between Cook and Lake Counties, hence the name of the road. In its western stretch, it marks the border between McHenry and ...
Website. www.vah.com. Arlington Heights is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. A northwestern suburb of Chicago, it lies about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of the city's downtown. [2] As of the 2020 census, the village's population was 77,676, making it the 15th-most populous municipality in Illinois. [3]