Plainfield, IL

The Village of Plainfield is a municipality in Will County, Illinois, United States.

The Village includes land in Plainfield and Wheatland Townships. Part of Plainfield is located in Kendall County (Na-Au-Say and Oswego Townships). The population has grown from 4,500 in 1990 to about 30,314 in 2005. [1] Plainfield is the fourth fastest growing municipality in the United States according to msn.com

Plainfield is identified as the oldest community in Will County because the earliest settlement of Walkers' Grove was established on the banks of the DuPage River by 1828. However, the actual Village of Plainfield was platted immediately north of Walkers' Grove in 1834 by Chester Ingersoll. East Plainfield was platted in 1835 by James Mathers and James Turner. The two fledgling communities were joined by Levi Arnold's Addition in 1845. The community's early prosperity was stunted when the Illinois & Michigan Canal opened in 1848 because the Village was not located along the canal. Located within the Village are numerous Greek Revival, "upright and wing" cottages, a school built in 1847 (which may be the oldest surviving "one-room schoolhouse" in Illinois), and a number of early-19th-century homes. According to a list prepared by the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois, there are homes in Plainfield that rank sixth on a list of the 10 most endangered areas in the state of Illinois. Three structures are listed in the National Register of Historic Places: Plainfield House, Flanders House and a 1928 Standard Oil Gas Station. The Village is the fastest growing in the county.

The Village has established a community Preservation Commission and Historic Preservation Ordinance.

The Plainfield Tornado, an F5 tornado, devastated the Village and neighboring municipalities on August 28, 1990 killing 29 people.

Planfield, IL Schools
Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 serves Plainfield as well as Plainfield Township in unincorporated parts of Will County, Joliet (Caton Farm Road Corridor), and small parts of Bolingbrook, and Romeoville.

http://www.plainfield-il.org/

 Oswego East High School - www.oswego308.org - (630) 636-2200 
 
 Aurora University - www.aurora.edu - (630) 844-5533
 
 Lakewood Creek Elementary School - www.oswego308.org - (630) 636-3200 
 
 Aurora West Unit School District 129: Aurora - www.sd129.org - (630) 301-5004
 
 Aurora West Unit School District 129: Washington Middle School - www.sd129.org - (630) 301-5017
 
 Oswego Community Unit School District 308: Boulder Hill - www.oswego308.org - (630) 636-2900
 
 Aurora West Unit School District 129: Freeman Elementary School - www.sd129.org - (630) 301-5002
 
 Aurora West Unit School District 129: Nicholson - www.sd129.org - (630) 301-5013

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