I took my phone a few blocks east, to the campus of Loyola University. To commemorate my discovery, I photographed my Dos Passos novel set edgewise on the ground, and posted it on Instagram as “ The 42nd Parallel on the 42nd parallel.”Īfter that discovery, I wanted to find out what else the 42nd parallel passes through in my neighborhood. I walked south through my alley, watching the numbers to the right of the decimal dwindle until I arrived at the grassy strip between the street and the sidewalk, on the north side of Arthur Avenue, between Clark Street and Glenwood Avenue. The app gave the coordinates of my home as 42.00037 degrees north. Trilogy The 42nd Parallel because much of the action takes place here, as it did in so many early 20th Century naturalistic novels.īut where exactly in Chicago can the 42nd parallel be found? I discovered its location quite by accident, when I installed a Latitude/Longitude app on my phone. Author John Dos Passos titled the first volume of his U.S.A. At Point Pelee National Park, in Ontario, a “42” statue stands beside a hiking trail, signifying one of the few spots in mainland Canada south of that line.Īnother reason the 42nd parallel is well worth reading about: It runs through Chicago. It was the northern border of New Spain and thus, today, of California, Nevada, and Utah. The 42nd parallel is not a commonplace line of latitude.
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