Plainfield, IL: The Gem City Women's Tri-Blend Tee

Part of Our Route 66 Everytown Collection | Plainfield Edition

Plainfield, Illinois: The Gem City

Plainfield began beside Walkers' Grove on the DuPage River and took its name from the flat prairie around it, a village platted in 1834 that grew into a big Illinois suburb.

Wind through Plainfield, where the Lincoln Highway met Route 66 and a 1921 grain elevator still stands, in a soft women's tri-blend tee.

Part of the Route 66 Everytown Collection: one tee for every town that ever called the road home. Start with Plainfield, then collect the entire route.

T-Shirt Details & Features

• Next Level 6710 women's tri-blend tee with a slim, feminine fit (see size chart in product image gallery)
• 50% polyester, 25% combed ring-spun cotton, 25% rayon for a soft, lightweight drape
• Crew neck with a tear-away label for comfort
• Available in sizes S–2XL
• Printed in the USA
• Free U.S. shipping on orders of $25 or more, applied automatically!

About Plainfield, Illinois: Prairie, Highways and a Heron Rookery

Grokipedia says Walkers' Grove, the first permanent European-American community in Will County, grew up beside the DuPage River in the 1830s. Chester Ingersoll and T.J. York platted the village in 1834, and its name came from the level prairie around it. Grokipedia dates village incorporation to 1861, and the 2020 census counted 44,762 residents. Wikipedia adds that Plainfield is often identified as Will County's oldest community because Walkers' Grove dates to 1828. The village also remembers the F5 tornado of August 28, 1990, which killed 29 people.

The Plainfield Route 66 guide says Route 66 did not pass through Plainfield when it was created in 1926. A straighter road built in 1939 brought it in along former Illinois Route 126, and a four-lane bypass later skirted the town. The Lincoln Highway, created in 1913, was paved through Plainfield in 1921, and the guide says the two highways met at Lockport Street and overlapped for the next three blocks of what is now Illinois Route 59.

Plenty of that era remains. The guide points to a cement grain elevator built in 1921 with a 100,000-bushel capacity and to the Maple View Texaco at the Division Street corner, which opened in the 1920s with a cottage-style building that housed a café run by Ella Klomhaus. The building was moved in 1963 to 15518 Joliet Road, where the guide says it now serves as a local business office. Downtown Plainfield has a historic district, and the guide lists an 1851 school that is now the Plainfield Inn. Nature fans can visit the Heron Rookery Nature Preserve at Lake Renwick Preserve, an 874-acre preserve centered on a 200-acre lake.

Keep rolling along Route 66 with our women's tee for Joliet and our unisex tees for Romeoville, Lockport and Wilmington. Prefer a classic fit? Pick up our unisex Plainfield tee.

Care Instructions

• Machine wash: cold (max 86°F / 30°C)
• Tumble dry: low heat
• Non-chlorine bleach as needed
• Iron: low heat
• Do NOT dry clean

Bring a piece of Plainfield home. Carry a piece of the Mother Road's history. Add this tee to your cart, then explore every Illinois town on Route 66.