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[edit] Chicago coin Trail

• Value: $10,000
• This coin was found Tuesday February 20 ~3:30 AM

[edit] CLUES

1. Once a frontier, it is clear from the story, the coin is hidden in our first territory.

   Louisiana Purchase

2. Sure we're sure the right state to explore - you can see water, just not sea water from the shore.

   Not ocean attached (No louisiana)

3. Four sierra, three India, two papa, one mike, arranged differently tell you where to hike.

   Mississippi

4. To find the coin, you must know, which state's dance includes a do-si-do.

   Square dancing (Illinois)

5. It's cold in winter but your search will freeze if you don't keep it above 38 degrees.

   North of 38 Latitude

6. If you find yourself in a petunia fest it means you traveled too far west.

   Dixon, IL

7. It's elementary, if you're Sherlock Holmes, find the middle of these HOMES.

8. At 1 o'clock draw the line, from this place wrongly named after sparkling wine.

   Champaign, IL, which has a rail line going from it at a 1 o clock angle

9. You're in the right place and close to the prize, when you notice there are two lakes on two sides.

   Loda, IL (two lakes splitting the train route from champign)

10. The going's slow, and won't be scary, so follow the flow of the prairie toward the town of the prairie.

    Worden aka Prairietown IL

11. 32 wheels on a metal spike topped off with something insect-like. The giant bug is first in order, and this marks your western border.

    The Cars on a spike in Aurora, IL

12. With towering smilers you need not be near, to change your search to north of here.

    Possibly Superdawg on Milwaukee Ave.

13. If you're a keeper of fire you would know this place is named for where wild onions grow.

    Indian name for wild onion = Chicagou

14. At the turn of a century this was quite a city. Now it's gone. Such a pity. All the beauty's left this place. So from here you must northward race.

    The White City: The columbia exposition at Jackson park

15. Search for the coin, hunt around, it will be between two major diamonds found.

    Wrigley Field and whatever sox park is called these days.

16. Big Hill runs from cemetery to lake. At one point it completely breaks. From the hill you mustn't frown, the key now is to start counting down.

    Bryn Mawr=Big Hill in Welsh

17. It forms a straight north-south corridor. It shares its name with a Roman orator. To find the coin, you must do your best, to prevent your search from going west.

    Cicero Ave

18. Hark Teed may mix you up but know, its name reflects in watery glow. It marks the tip of the AU short, and you shouldn't journey south anymore.

    The Drake Hotel, Gold Coast.

19. You'll have better luck if you do your best to keep devils and the wizard to the west.

    Depaul University and Oz Park Depaul's team: Blue Demons

20. To find the coin, continue forth, between where north is south and lake is north.

    North avenue and the bend in LSD.

21. This road is your border, to the east you must stay. Its old name was colorful, but it has a wartime hero's name today.

    Sherman Ave.

22. This place once held the city's dead, now it immortalizes three storytellers instead.

    Lincoln park. The storytellers are Shakespeare, Andersen, and Field

23. To find the coin in this place, pass by in the direction of lions and tigers then bears... oh my.

    Lincoln Park Zoo.

24. Sailing from the north with all its ice, you must first find safe harbor thrice.

    Diversey Harbor, south of Montrose and Belmont Harbor.

25. Only two streets of this kind touch the park, so use your mind, for between them the coin you might find.

    Diversey and Fullerton Parkway.

26. This clue spans gaps so don't be vexed, go under one and over the next.

    Fullerton Ave, over Diversey harbor, and under LSD (Best Guess)

27. You'll be getting closer and come to know harm, if westward walking you cross this firearm.

    West of Cannon Ave.

28. Just beyond where traffic flows, a floating cross will mean you're getting close.

    The Lagoon Outcropping just outside the Prairie Museum.

29. This tranquil place with cardinal name is where, with luck, the coin you'll claim.

    Cardinal (N.S.E.W) + Tranquil= North Pond.

30. How beautiful is the key, if you say it with liberty, equality and fraternity. Then the final part of your feat is simply to have a seat.

    Under the Northeast bench of the Gazebo on the west side of the pond)

(answers supplied by caerien)

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