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The 42,-88 graticule contains Schaumburg, Elgin, Crystal Lake, and many more cities near Chicago, IL. Also contains Burlington, Whitewater and New Berlin in Wisconsin.

Official Meetup

In accordance with the Main Page, the official meetup of the 42,-88 graticule will be held every Saturday at 4pm Central time.

Next Official Meetup

When: Saturday, 4pm
Where: TBD
Who: Maybe you, Maybe me, Maybe Us, Maybe Them!.

Past Official Meetups

(most recent first)

2012-12-09 42 -88, Haberdasher tried to reach this hash, but it was on the private property of a landscaping company.
2012-07-16 42 -88, starbird convinced jackazzzz to go hashing near work in Hoffman Estates
2012-06-06 42 -88, RocketMac stopped by a giant hardware store's parking lot
2012-05-31 42 -88, RocketMac visited a rainy geohash on the way to his "last meal" before a month of cleansing
2012-02-29 42 -88, FireTrophy drove out to Volo, for the Leap day achievement, and his inagural geohash.
2012-01-08 42 -88, RocketMac started his 40th birthday with cake and contemplation
2011-12-19 42 -88, RocketMac drove through a hashpoint in the middle of the street he calculated himself
2011-12-17 42 -88, RocketMac dragged his wife along on a Midnight Geohash
2011-10-28 42 -88, RocketMac made an easy trip to a hashpoint near grocery shopping
2011-10-17 42 -88, RocketMac visited a retrohash from earlier in the week during a client visit
2011-10-09 42 -88, RocketMac had flashbacks to Cub Scouts in a corn field in Harvard, IL
2011-08-06 42 -88, RocketMac ruined a pair of shoes but made a hash collision in Ottawa, WI.
2010-09-05 42 -88, Gus Polly in a public park in Belvidere, Illinois.
2010-08-20 42 -88, Bassoon and Dedehawk in a field in Franklin, Wisconsin.
2010-03-03 42 -88, MrMoses in a neighborhood out in the country
2010-02-17 42 -88, MrMoses and DLeininger in front of grainery among some big metal silos and grain elevators
2010-02-14 42 -88, MrMoses and DLeininger in a corn field
2010-02-01 42 -88, MrMoses and DLeininger in a neighborhood on a lake
2010-01-31 42 -88, MrMoses in some trees of a prairie path through some corn fields
2009-03-07 42 -88, starbird and Bill Minser in a ritzy neighborhood in Saylesville, WI
2008-08-16 42 -88, 2 people, in the middle of a soybean field, north of Marengo, IL
2008-07-21 42 -88, 2 people, in a parking lot, just south of Woodfield Mall.
2008-07-12 42 -88, 1 person, at the intersection of Karcher Rd and Shaal Rd, southeast of Bohner Lake, WI
2008-05-31 42 -88, 1 person, YWCA downtown Elgin
2008-05-24 42 -88, 5 people, middle of a field
2008-05-23 42 -88, 1 person, front lawn of an antiques mall

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Local Geohashers

Pesto
Cortel
Tyrun
AudiblySilenced
th' Viking
ecthros
MrMoses (I live in the Rockford, IL graticule, but less than 5 miles from this Schaumburg, IL graticule)
Gus Polly (ditto)
RocketMac I live in Milwaukee, WI area but am originally from Naperville, IL, so this graticule suits me just fine.
Sarda lives just barely north in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin during the summer and when visiting from college.
FireTrophy Lives nearby this graticule, and may try to make these spots when I can.
Swoop2 Lives in Palatine.

External Links

Official Geohashing Coordinate Calculator - compute today's geohashed coordinates (available only after 8:30am Central).
Official Atom feed for 42,-88

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 === Past Official Meetups ===
 (most recent first)
+* [[2012-12-09 42 -88]], [[User:Haberdasher|Haberdasher]] tried to reach this hash, but it was on the private property of a landscaping company.
 * [[2012-07-16 42 -88]], [[User:starbird|starbird]] convinced [[User:Jackazzzz|jackazzzz]] to go hashing near work in Hoffman Estates
 * [[2012-06-06 42 -88]], [[User:RocketMac|RocketMac]] stopped by a giant hardware store's parking lot

Madison, WI	Fond du Lac, WI	Milwaukee, WI
Rockford	Schaumburg	Kenosha, WI
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