Chicago, Illinois
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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.
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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.
- 2024-07-04 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
