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The Chicago, IL graticule is located at latitude 41, longitude -87. It includes almost the entire city proper (excluding the area north of Devon Ave), the south suburbs, Kankakee, Gary and NW Indiana.

Notable Dates

Virgletati earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (41, -87) graticule, here, on 2008-05-24.

Official Meetup

In accordance with the Main Page, the official meetup of the 41,-87 graticule will be held every Saturday at 4pm Central time.

• The first Saturday meetup (05-24-2008): Happened! But only one person showed.

• The meetup for (06-07-2008): Four of us drove down from the city. Nice little spot right off of the road. We were a few minutes late and did not see anyone else there. Pictures were taken but they remain on a cell phone that I do not have access to.

• The meetup for (06-21-2008): Five people total showed up at the suggested alternate location, a beach near Uptown.

• The meetup for (07-25-2009): One person showed up. Was in a residential neighborhood in the suburbs.

• The meetup for Feb 16, 2013: zhukant and lrbrink90 stamped their feet on a freezing sidewalk then ate Subway sandwiches in their car in Oriole Park.

• The meetup for Dec 14, 2013: nesbiteg walked through the fresh snow to a point just off the Lakefront Trail in Uptown.

Other Visits

If you visited a point on a date/time other than Saturday at 4:00 PM, put it here.

• 2024-11-09 41 -87: Haberdasher in a cemetery in Forest Park.
• 2024-09-15 41 -87: Haberdasher got this one standing in a golf course parking lot in Bensenville.
• 2024-08-04 41 -87: Tarasaurus reached this point under the approach path to O'Hare, in Rosemont.
• 2024-07-04 41 -87: Tarasaurus took a train to this point near a church in Hinsdale.
• 2024-02-03 41 -87: Haberdasher got close to the hashpoint in the middle of Mannheim Road in Westchester.
• 2023-09-30 41 -87: Haberdasher in an alleyway in Berwyn, just off old Route 66.
• 2023-08-20 41 -87: Haberdasher in a small park in Bensenville.
• 2023-08-12 41 -87: Haberdasher next to a corporate building in Villa Park.
• 2020-12-20 41 -87: Haberdasher in an alleyway in River Grove.
• 2016-07-02 41 -87: Haberdasher and tag-along friend in a front yard in Elmhurst.
• 2015-09-20 41 -87: Haberdasher in a parking lot in Oak Brook.
• 2015-05-28 41 -87: OtherJack, Mystrsyko, & Dolphintreasure met in the Brighton Park area.
• 2014-11-20 41 -87: Solo expedition by Thomcat in Eastside.
• 2014-07-12 41 -87: Haberdasher and OtherJack in Countryside.
• 2014-07-05 41 -87: Mystrsyko and Haberdasher in North Riverside.
• 2013-12-27 41 -87: OtherJack and Haberdasher on Northerly Island.
• 2013-04-15 41 -87: Herdingbats gets close to a hash on the railroad tracks.
• 2013-01-07 41 -87: Haberdasher outside a building in Bellwood.
• 2012-12-22 41 -87: Haberdasher in a forest preserve in Darien, IL.
• 2012-11-17 41 -87: OtherJack and 2pacchacha encountered Summit, IL
• 2012-08-13 41 -87: Haberdasher at a mall in Calumet City.
• 2012-07-05 41 -87: Haberdasher on a residential road in Schiller Park.
• 2012-03-01 41 -87: RocketMac found a geohash and won a charity poker tournament for his camp!
• 2009-06-04 41 -87: Jachim visited the hash, but it was inside a building with no access.
• 2009-04-18 41 -87: Virgletati got a speed racer hash in Kankakee.
• 2009-03-27 41 -87: Solo geohasher excursion by Nathan to the middle of a corn field north of Manteno, IL.
• 2009-03-21 41 -87: Virgletati went to the shore due west of a hashpoint in Lake Michigan.
• Bored on Thanksgiving '08 (11-27-2008): Just me out in the burbs somewhere.
• 2008-06-11 41 -87: YellowYoshi tried to reach a hashpoint, but it was on private property.
• 2008-06-06 41 -87: YellowYoshi tried to reach a hashpoint, but arrived after the cemetery in which it was located had closed.

Local Geohashers

• Typewriter
• jazmatician
• lrbrink90
• Herdingbats
• nesbiteg
• OtherJack occasionally
• Haberdasher is just across the graticule border and hashes here sometimes

External Links

• Geohashing Coordinate Calculator - compute today's geohashed coordinates (available only after 10:30am Central).
• Official Atom feed for 41,-87