The story
The Des Plaines campus remains the main campus, home to the Koehnline Museum of Art and the Lee Science and Health Careers Center.
Everything that was here
- 2023–present · still open
Oakton CollegeSchool
Renamed Oakton College on January 17, 2023 with a new logo and branding.
See the map in 2024 → - 1980–2023
Oakton Community College - Des Plaines CampusSchool
Oakton's main campus opened in June 1980 on riverside forest land bought six years earlier.
See the map in 1981 →
Nearby history
Maryville Academy
1150 N River Road · 1.5 km away
Renamed by its children in 1950, Maryville became Illinois' best-known child-welfare campus under Father John Smyth.
McDonald's No. 1 Store (Ray Kroc Franchise)
400 Lee Street · 1.8 km away
The Choo-Choo
600 Lee Street · 2.3 km away
A 1951 diner where a model train delivers your burger basket, still running in its 1956 building.
Des Plaines Theatre (Onesti Entertainment)
1476 Miner Street · 2.3 km away
After a $6.7 million city-funded restoration, the theatre reopened on Halloween night 2021 with Kevin Costner & Modern W
Sugar Bowl Restaurant
1494 Miner Street · 2.3 km away
Reopened in 2009 as a breakfast house under the original 1957 neon.
Des Plaines History Center / Kinder House Museum
781 Pearson Street · 2.6 km away
The city's history museum has lived in a relocated 1907 mansion since 1978.
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