Schaumburg, Illinois

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Today's location: not yet announced

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 Expeditions

(most recent first)

• 2023-06-25 42 -88, Tarasaurus took the train to Crystal Lake and was surrounded by rainbows.
• 2015-06-28 42 -88, Gefrierbrand tried to reach the hash, but there was no public access.
• 2014-11-19 42 -88, Thomcat visited Coon Creek near Hampshire IL.
• 2014-09-24 42 -88, Haberdasher went out to a strip mall parking lot in Schaumburg.
• 2014-01-13 42 -88, Dune Heading over to the outskirts of Burlington then stopping in town for a Fred's Burger.
• 2014-01-11 42 -88, Dune took a different route home after a late night movie.
• 2013-12-31 42 -88, OtherJack took a snowy drive to Medieval Times.
• 2013-11-09 42 -88, StatMan22 plans to reach this hash after a Purdue football game, just 287 meters from his house!
• 2013-09-27 42 -88, Mystrsyko reached a hash alongside the FOx River in Carpentersville.
• 2013-04-12 42 -88, StatMan22 plans to reach this hash on his way home from work.
• 2013-02-20 42 -88, StatMan22 reaached this hash, on a sidewalk, after work.
• 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
• 2012-06-14 42 -88, Swoop2 and User:TJAMM reached a hash on a road in Hawthorn Woods.
• 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
• 2012-03-17 42 -88, hezekiah reached a hash in the woods in New Berlin.
• 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.
• 2010-05-03 42 -88, MrMoses and friends reach a hash in someone's back yard.
• 2010-03-03 42 -88, MrMoses in a neighborhood out in the country
• 2010-02-18 42 -88, MrMoses gets permission to visit a hash in someone's backyard, at night.
• 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
• 2009-11-10 42 -88, Jachim visited the area of the hash, but the point was on private property.
• 2009-09-12 42 -88, ecthros and Summer tried to reach the hash, but were unable to gain access.
• 2009-09-07 42 -88, Hash on private property, so people relocated to a nearby park.
• 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

Virginia earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (42, -88) graticule, here, on 2008-05-23.

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.
• Dune Lives in Waterford

External Links

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

Chicagoland Geohash Twitter - Daily descriptions of hash points in the Chicago and surrounding graticules.