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Plainfield, Illinois
Plainfield is a village in Will County, in the Chicago metro
area.
It's latitude is 41.626N. The longitude is
-88.203W.
It is in the Central Standard time zone. Elevation is 617 feet.
The estimated population, in 2003, was 20,162.
INCOME SNAPSHOT
Median household income
Local
$80,799
National
$41,994
Source: 2000 census, U.S. Census Bureau
For more census details and comparisons, see our Demographic reports
Plainfield is on the DuPage River.
Before his transcontinental flight, Charles Lindbergh
supervised construction of landing fields here.
One of several American communities claiming to be the
birthplace of the ice cream sundae. In Plainfield, a local
druggist served ice cream with syrup and named it "sonntag,"
German for Sunday.
Wildlife: Lake Renwick Heron Rookery
23% of the residents report German ancestry, and 15%
report Irish.
Economy
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in
Plainfield was $28,242, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Education
34% of Plainfield residents age 25 and older have a
bachelor's or advanced college degree.
Housing & real estate
Median rent in Plainfield, at the time of the 2000 Census,
was $631. Monthly homeowner costs, for people with mortgages,
were $1,593.
Parks & recreation
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