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Possible Trailhead or very beginning in Chicago???
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lwfjester
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Joined: 05 Nov 2004
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Location: Chi-town

Possible Trailhead or very beginning in Chicago???
Searched "Chicago" in the forum, found nothing recent, so decided to post

Found this flier on a lamppost on the corners of George Street, Lakewood Avenue, and Lincoln Avenue. It is right in front of a bar called The Elbow Room (which has a band playing tonight).
I haven't signed on this website since I was playing 'ilovebees' back in '07, but I COULD NOT pass up ripping off one of the tags. If you can't read it, the flier says
"LOST (picture of the presumably lost with strange symbols on either side)
HAVE YOU SEEN ME?
Be sure to copy the codes, leave everything like you found it, and I'll see you on the buggy rock. Remember, it ain't over till the fat lady sings.
- H. T. H."

The removable tags say
"call me @
41.88883534854117,
or -87.65674039721489"

There was one tag removed when I took mine. I was shocked to see it and thought it was pretty cool. I, unfortunately, have absolutely NO skill in this as I'm a complete N00B at this...so I leave it to you to discuss.
I would like to mention that the symbol does closely resemble the intersection where I found the flier, except Lincoln goes this way '\' as opposed to the '/' in the circle of the symbol.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:24 pm
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cherrytree98765
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Joined: 09 Dec 2008
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Those look like cordorinates, but not phone numbers, but inputting them does bring you this in google maps:

The address is 1199 W Kinzie St. which is in chicago. Maybe there will be another poster or something there?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:31 pm
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lwfjester
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Joined: 05 Nov 2004
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Location: Chi-town

Interesting.....its another 3 corner intersection. I'll see if I can swing by tonight...I'll update if I do.

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MarcusBrody
Kilroy


Joined: 22 Jan 2010
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Finally, a Chicago-based arg. I live in the Chicago area, and I think I can help a little here:

Those coordinates actually point to the empty lot on the southeast corner of Kinzie and Racine. The two strange icons at the top of the Lost poster look like spoked wheels with one spoke missing. From the coordinates point, directly to the northwest, there is a manhole cover with a spoked pattern (Google streetview).

If you paste those exact coordinates into Google Earth, you will see that directly to the northwest from this point (along the missing spoke of the icon in the poster) is the manhole cover with the spoked wheel pattern.

Check that manhole cover!

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