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HALLOWEEN PARTIES, FESTIVALS & EVENTS

Jack’s Pumpkin Pop-up Lyric Halloween Masquerade
River West/West Town - Until Nov 03 2018 Chicago Loop - Oct 27 2018
Run through a corn maze without going to A haunted evening in the Civic Opera
the suburbs. Jack’s Pumpkin Pop-up, a new House at the Lyric Halloween Masquerade,
Halloween-themed pop-up experience, brings which raises money to support emerging
the seasonal outdoor fun to a two-acre lot near operatic talent. Attendees are encouraged
Goose Island. Guests can enjoy pumpkin carving, to arrive dressed in a mask and formal attire
carnival games and nightly live performances for a party that includes cocktails, bites from
from sword swallowers and fire dancers. Plus, local restaurants, drag performers and a live
there’s a bar inside of the corn maze stocked with DJ. Tickets also include admission to an after
beer and cider. party at Celeste.
www.exploretock.com/jackspumpkinnights
Pumpkin Party at Gallagher Way www.lyricopera.org/concertstickets/calendar/2018-
Wrigleyville - Oct 25 2018 2019-development/lyric-halloween-masquerade
Go to Gallagher Way for an early Halloween
celebration in Wrigleyville, where costumed HopeHELL BOOing
attendees can trick-or-treat around the park Logan Square - Oct 27 2018
or create something at the craft station. Miss Logan Square’s Hopewell Brewing, will
Jamie’s Farm will be peforming from 4pm- rename the space “Hopehell Booing” for an
6pm, Green City Market will host a caramel apple entire afternoon of scary fun. Guests are
station and parents can enjoy spiked cider or encouraged to arrive in costume and enjoy
pumpkin beer. Stick around for a screening of treats from Donut Republic, magic tricks,
Casper, beginning at 6pm. tarot readings and spooky movies. The day
www.gallagherway.com/events will also mark the debut of Hopewell’s Ride
Nocturna All Hallow’s Eve Ball or Die pale ale in cans.
Wrigleyville - Oct 26 2018-Oct 27 2018 www.hopewellbrewing.com/
Metro’s goth gathering celebrates Halloween
with its annual ball, featuring DJ Scary Lady Haunted Rooftop at Cerise
Sarah spinning all the industrial, post-punk, Chicago Loop - Oct 27 2018-Oct 28 2018
shoegaze and New Wave that your black heart Party on Virgin Hotels Chicago’s 25th and 26th
can handle. This year’s event will feature a floors at this spooky late-night bash, where
photobooth, a balloon artist, a pin the skull on you’ll find two dance floors to show off your
the skeleton game and more creepy surprises. moves and your costume. Drink and admire
Show up in a costume (because admission the skyline views or hang out inside on two
is cheaper) and get ready for a dark night to floors of the hotel. If you get general admission
remember. tickets, don’t forget to show up before 11pm.

http://metrochicago.com/event/nocturna-hallows-eve-ball/ https://virginhotels.com/chicago/dine-and-drink/cerise/

Drake Hotel Masquerade Ball Underworld’s Fair
Streeterville - Oct 27 2018 Chicago Loop - Oct 27 2018
In celebration of Halloween, the historic Drake The Chicago Athletic Association hotel’s
Hotel hosts a Masquerade Ball, where you’ll annual Halloween party imagines an
be able to remain anonymous among a sea of ecological disaster that has caused Cook
costumed attendees in the hotel’s Palm Court. County to declare a state of dystopia.
Guest are encouraged to arrive in a mask and Revelers will take refuge in Stagg Court,
black tie attire and will enjoy an evening of where house music selector DJ Pierre will
drinks (including Spooky Sangria) and live music soundtrack a haunted evening. When the
from the Flat Cats. dance floor is cleared at midnight, the party
heads to the Game Room for even more
www.thedrakehotel.com/dining/halloween/MasqueradeBall spooky fun.
http://chicagoathleticevents.com/tc-events/
save-the-date-annual-halloween-party/

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Haunted Halloween Ball Rock & Roll
Downtown - Oct 27 2018-Oct 28 2018 Masquerade Ball at Bohemian
The Haunted Halloween Ball takes over the National Cemetery
Congress Plaza Hotel for a night of dancing, North Park - Oct 28 2018
gruesome costumes and celebration. The Party in the Bohemian National Cemetery the
hotel’s ballrooms are transformed into haunted Sunday before Halloween at this masquerade
spaces for the evening, with zombie cocktail fundraiser, which is raising money to preserve
servers, go-go dancers and vampire bellmen the spooky setting. The celebration will take
prowling through the party. Attendees can place in the cemetery’s chapel, which was built
enter a costume contest, listen to DJs and enjoy in 1913 and boasts a 55-foot dome ceiling. Live
skyline views. music from The Footlight District, Willa Rae and
https://hauntedhalloweenball.com/ the Minor Arcana, The Phones and Dreamboats
Logan Square will soundtrack the evening. Plus, it’s BYOB, so
Halloween Parade bring your favorite beverage to get in the spirit.
Logan Square - Oct 28 2018 http://activate.loopchicago.com/
Logan Square’s annual Halloween procession events/2018/10/28/rock-roll-masquerade-ball-at-
brings out costumed participants from all bohemian-national-cemetery
around for a festive celebration. The parade Death at the Disco
begins at the Illinois Centennial Monument River North - Oct 31 2018
and marches south on Kedzie Boulevard to Broken Shaker will turn the clock back to 1978
Fullerton Avennue before looping back to on Halloween, when the building that houses
Lula Cafe for hot cider and cookies. As usual, Freehand Chicago was still known as the Tokyo
punk rock marching band Mucca Pazza will Hotel. DJ Tess will provide period-appropriate
be leading the festivities and providing the dance floor hits while attendees decked out in
spooky soundtrack. deadly disco-era attire enjoy festive cocktails.
www.chicagoparkdistrict.com/events/logan- https://freehandhotels.com/chicago/event/
square-halloween-parade-palmer-square death-at-the-disco/

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Lost in Space: "The Horror of the
Halloween at Lost Lake Humanities” Program
Avondale - Oct 31 2018 See the socially-conscious side of horror at
Logan Square tiki paradise Lost Lake ususally this free avant-garde haunted house, along
dresses up for Halloween and this year, it’s with a contemporary horror film screening on
putting on an intergalactic costume. Join in for October 29.
the Lost in Space party and you’ll be treated
to an evening of cosmic cocktails made with Day of the Dead Celebration
ingredients from a far, far away galaxy. at Maxwell Street Market
http://www.lostlaketiki.com/ Celebrate this Mexican holiday on October 28
with a costume contest, live music, arts and
MORE crafts, and pumpkin decorating.

HALLOWEEN PARTIES, N o rt h a l s t e d
FESTIVALS & EVENTS Halloween Parade
A creative costume event / Parade in Boystown
Nobody Sleeps at the Corpse Cabaret on Wednesday, October 31 at 7:30 pm.
Don’t miss this costume dance party featuring
a DJ, cocktails, and appetizers at the Parkway Arts in the Dark Parade
Ballroom on Saturday, October 27th. Gather on Saturday, October 20 from 6pm-
The Nightmare at Navy Pier 8pm for a parade of performances, giant
Presents: The Haunted Halloween puppets, and decorative displays on Columbus
Ball At the Aon Grand Ballroom from Balbo to Monroe.
Navy Pier’s main ballroom gets decked out on
October, 27th. Spooky Pooch Parade
Bring your costumed furry friend to the
Boos & Booze Halloween Party Chicago Botanic Garden and follow a fun
Enjoy a three-hour drink package and costume parade route on Saturday, October 20.
contest at the Hubbard Inn on Saturday,
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The Godfrey Haunted Hotel
Explore 20 haunted hotel rooms at this fright
night on Saturday, October 27th.
Haunted Halloween Party Cruise
Go aboard the Spirit of Chicago cruise to enjoy
a haunted party with costumes and live DJs on
Saturday, October 28 & 27.
Chicago Monster Dash
Run to the lakefront on Saturday, October 20
to complete a 5k, 10k, or half marathon race
wearing your favorite costume.
Spooky Zoo Spec tacular
This family-friendly Chicago tradition returns to
the Lincoln Park Zoo on Saturday, October 27.
Wickedly Whiting Festival
On October 13, see Whiting, IN (East of
Chicago) transformed into a freak show, also
featuring live music, costume contests, food
and beer vendors, and a family stage.

chicagoland's

HAUNTED HOUSES

13th Floor Haunted House - Melrose, IL Hades Boiler Room, Cabin of Carnage. It takes
One of Chicago’s largest haunted houses with between 30-50 minutes to go through the
lots of new attractions this year. It features the attractions at this ticket level. Visit on Friday,
attractions Bloodlines and Dead End District Saturday and most Sunday’s in October. Doors
Fallout. Tickets prices depending on the date. open at 7:00pm.
The 13th Floor is open almost every night Enchanted Haunted Trails - Burbank, IL
throughout October. The attractions run from This is really three full family entertainment and
7pm to 12am on Friday and Saturday. On some amusement centers in Burbank Illinois located
other nights it closes at 10pm or 11pm.  at 7759 S. Harlem Avenue, Burbank, IL 60459.
Basement of the Dead - Aurora, IL Haunted Trails is open every day all year long.
Open every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and They feature batting cages, go karts, miniature
Sunday nights in October. The haunt attractions golf, rides, a game room, October Haunted
at Basement of the Dead are Zombie Outbreak House, birthday parties, and restaurants.
Apocalypse. A great event with a chance They are open 10am to either 10am or 11pm.
to shoot “live” zombies. One of the scariest Haunted Trails is open every day all year long.
haunted house in the western suburbs of They feature batting cages, go karts, miniature
Chicago. Doors open at 7 pm. Tickets available golf, rides, a game room, October Haunted
starting at $28. Note: Parking nearby at House, birthday parties, and restaurants.
Hollywood Casino is $4. Warning the city will Fear Fest - South Beloit, IL
tow cars that are not properly parked.  Open weekends beginning September
Canyon Trail Cemetery - Carol Steam, IL 28th.  Fear Fest features a haunted barn, fun
The Halloween displays went up on October house, and haunted hayride. Celebrating over
6th and run nightly through the rest of 20 years of fear.  Tickets are $12 each haunt for
October. One of the best local yard haunts in a combo for $30. Doors are open Friday and
the Chicagoland area. Canyon Trail features Saturday from 7 pm until 11 pm. Doors close at
a cemetery, graveyard, undead creatures, 10 pm on Sunday. Their weekend season starts
pumpkins, ghosts, and pumpkinhead late September. Discount coupon available on
animatronics. Free entry to the public but you their web page.
can donate canned food for a local charity if you Hair Razor - Chicago, IL
wish to help. Open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night
Disturbia Screams in the Park - Rosemont, IL in October beginning October 5th.  Tickets
This one of a kind haunt is at the same great are $13 for Hair Razor. Weekends in October,
location as last year with new scenes for starting the 5th, St Thecla Parish presents
Screams In The Park at Disturbia. It is the living the Hair Razor Haunted Scenes. Be prepared
embodiment of your fears and nightmares. to be scared because our Haunted Scenes
Dungeon of Doom Haunted House - Zion, IL have been designed by some of the best
The fun has begun and continues through in the industry. Our designers have over 35
October. Find ghouls, deranged clowns and years of experience in designing some of the
two floors of fear at the Dungeons of Doom scariest houses in the Chicago land area and
Haunted House. A 40,000 square foot haunt surrounding Suburbs. Be prepared as we add
with 80 actors everyday. It takes about 30 and change-out scares to enhance the level
minutes to go through the Dungeon of Doom of your fears to higher extremes. This year we
and about another 20 minutes to go through have a 6,000 square ft.  Haunt and 24 different
the other two haunt attractions Buried Dead scenes, several new scenes for the 2018 season
and Alive. This haunt has been scary for over 20 and many other changes.
years. Tickets are $25-35 for multiple attraction Halloween Town - Algonquin, IL
scares depending on the night. Some of the A free interactive yard haunt display. In
new scenes are Clown Crazy 8’s, DOD Massive addition, there are PNEUMATIC and MOVING
Underworld, Tool Room Coop, Attic Fervor, PROPS within the cemetery gates, an inviting

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graveyard walk thru brings spectators and Karnival of Karnage - Belvidere, IL
victims of every age, up close and personal Tickets available at the Karnival of Karnage. This
to their darkest fears! ZOMBIES, GARGOYLES, year’s theme is Delirium. Doors open at 7pm
BATS, and SKELETONS, await you in this haunted every Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This event
cemetery!  BLEEDING CREATURES, CREEPY is held at the Boone County Fairgrounds. They
COFFINS, and much, much, more can be seen say it’s really scary and do not recommend for
here in HALLOWEEN TOWN. people pregnant or with heart conditions. For
Haunt 31 - Lake in the Hills, IL others you may be forced to chicken out. No
Haunt 31 is one of the largest yard haunts in shame for being afraid.
Illinois. Now with over 10,000 visitors each Massacre Haunted House - Montgomery, IL
October it features gravedigger, dungeons, Back again at the same location for 2018.
electric chairs, hangman, mud creature, and This is a 30,000 square foot attraction with 60
more. It is open every day (weather permitting) rooms of terror and more than 75-100 ghastly
starting around October 10th beginning nightly clad actors. Runs every Friday, Saturday and
at dusk. Entry tickets are free but donation are Sunday in October. Tickets are for the 2 combo
accepted. Massacre Haunted House and Fear City 3D.
Haunts Against Hunger - Park Forest, IL Doors are open 7pm until midnight on Friday
Kicks off for four nights on October 26th. Runs and Saturday or 11pm on all other nights. Note
Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday. An considered too extreme for children under age
annual  community and charity haunted house 13.  This is one of the most popular haunted
for seven years. They collect food and distribute attractions in Illinois and the country.
it through two local food banks. Sounds like Evil Intentions Haunted House - Elgin, IL
a wonderful cause and they put on a good Located at 900 Grace St, Elgin, IL 60120, (630)
show. They are at the corner of Orchard Rd and Opens 7:30pm (630) 634-2858
Route 30/Lincoln Highway. They are open from Realm of Terror - Round Lake Beach, IL
7:00pm until 9:30pm. This is the 16th year of fear for Realm of Terror.
Holiday Habits - Lake in the Hills, IL Nothing you will witness at Realm of Terror
Starts October 1st and runs nightly the entire will you ever see at any other Attraction, from
month of October. This is a Halloween yard the Parking Lot to the very last moment, you
display complete with graveyard cemetery, fog, will be inside of a winding maze of extreme
special effects, sound, and animatronics.  Walk terror unlike any other. If you are 21 or over
around… you never know what you may find or this haunt has a bar serving beer, wine, bombs,
what may find you! shots, and mixed drinks. Realm is open Friday
House of Torment - Morton Grove, IL and Saturday nights in October plus a couple
House of Torment is the former Fear City with of Sundays.  Doors open at 7:00pm. Tickets are
two new amazing haunts. This is a 40,000 $25 online and also noting “Featuring the best
square foot haunt with all new Hollywood in Makeup Effects created and supervised by
style indoor scenes. Doors open at 7pm. Some FACEOFF Season 9 star, Stevie Calabrese you can
attractions are Dead By Dawn and Surviving the expect to see some of the scariest things a mind
Night.  They are open most nights inculuding could conjure. Walk through fully immersive
Sundays in October. Check their web page for sets and environments created by professional
details. set designers, and experience horror even with
your eyes tightly shut with soundscapes custom
created to set a horrifying tone”. 

Jonamac Haunted Corn Maze - Malta, IL Six Flags Fright Fest - Gurnee, IL
Opens up for fright on October 5th.  The Fright Fest (Great America Six Flags), each fall
Jonamac Orchard holds its Haunted Corn the park re-opens on Friday, Saturday and
Maze every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night Sunday as the ultimate Halloween attraction
through the October 27th. It is open from dark Fright Fest. Their 2018 season operates for 23
until 10:30pm. Tickets are $13. Their 10 acre nights this season. It has 5 haunted houses,
cornfield has over 3 miles of winding paths and mazes, shows, midway, food, and lots and lots
Halloween decorations. This is a wonderful fun of rides. They have renamed some of their roller
orchard with daytime pumpkin patch, apple coasters with Halloween themes but others are
picking, bakery, corn maze, and more. At night it
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just too great to change. New this year is Hellfest.  to face with 100 criminals too evil to die in
So if you are into thrills both the haunted houses 23 maximum security cells. No one escapes
and roller coasters will put a scare into you. Spend Statesville. Statesville is open every Thursday,
the day, get there early. Great America really Friday, Saturday and Sunday in October plus a few
makes the park a Halloween attractions and has additional dates including Halloween night. Doors
lots of employee-actors dressed to surprise and open at 7 pm. Crest Hill is approximately 36 miles
scare you. from Chicago.

Sonny Acres Haunted House - West Chicago, IL The Catacombs - Chicago, IL
Haunted Wagon Ride started on October 5th. Dates open are Friday and Saturday in October
Sonny Acres Farms runs a wonderful year around plus a few additional dates. Check the schedule on
farm attraction. During its Fall Festival it operates their website. Tickets are $10 at the door.  Hours
a Haunted Hayride beginning at 7pm. The hayride are 7pm to 11pm. The basement home for
lasts approximately 20 minutes. It runs Friday, ghouls, ghosts, and creatures underneath St.
Saturday and Sunday nights in October. During Pascals Church.  Where dreams become your
the day they have pony rides, a kiddie coral, a nightmares:  “For close to one hundred years,
petting zoo, dizzy zone, a haunted barn, wagon there has been a place that has harbored the
rides, and lots of other fun and food around the undead and jailed the damned – a place that
farm. was never intended on being unearthed by
Statesville Haunted Prison - Crest Hill, IL mortal men. Since 1914, The Catacombs, located
Opening night is October 4th.  One of the best underneath the historic St. Pascal Church on
haunted houses around, Statesville Haunted Chicago’s northwest side, has long been a home
Prison and City of the Dead have a ticket price to the ghouls and ghosts, monsters and madmen.
of $30 and is well worth the money. The theme The barrier that prevented these very creatures
is prisoners have rioted and now you are face from entering our realm falls every October,
allowing the undesireables to roam free.”

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CHICAGO FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW 2019
Bookmark The Date!
Wednesday Mar. 20
thru Sunday Mar. 24

The show offers new exciting
landscape and garden elements
to turn even the most black of
thumbs into green ones.

Location: Navy Pier
600 E Grand Ave., Chicago

More Info. Online at:

chicagoflower.com

Discount: Save 20% when
you purchase tickets now!
There’s nothing better than
experiencing all the show has
to offer at a discount. Now until
December 31st.

Event Details:

Date: Wednesday - Sunday,
March 20-24, 2019
Time: Wednesday-Saturday
from 10am-8pm. Sunday
from 10am-6pm.

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