where was the first mcdonald's location
As the Daily Press notes, the restaurant, located at 400 N. Lee Street in Des Plaines, was not the fast-food chain's first location. The first McDonald's restaurant opened in San Bernardino, Ca., in 1940. But its franchising debut in the Chicago suburb in 1955 was the start of something truly massive: as Chicagoist points out, the chain boasted 100 locations nationwide just four years later.