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Replica of Ray Kroc's first McDonald's restaurant A replica of the first McDonald's restaurant opened by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois. Built in 1985, it was demolished in 2018.

Des Plaines

Illinois, United States
Also known as: Rand
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Des Plaines, city, Cook county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. Lying on the Des Plaines River, it is a suburb of Chicago, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of downtown. The area was originally inhabited by Potawatomi, Ottawa, and Ojibwa peoples. Settled in 1835 by Socrates Rand of Massachusetts, for whom the community was named in 1857, it was renamed for the river (French: “Of the Plains”) in 1869. German immigrants began arriving in the 1840s and have...

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