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BooFest

Grant Park Recreation Center 44 W Golfview Drive, Northlake, IL, United States

Come if you dare! Games, prizes, candy and more! The biggest bonfire, fireworks, haunted trails, scary movies and the most haunted hayride anywhere. And it's all free! Games from 6:00 to 8:00 when the bonfire and fireworks begin. Be there or be scared. 

Free
Event Series Night Terrors

Night Terrors

Hodgkins Park District 8997 Lyons St, Hodgkins

Haunted House with your choice of times for: Lights on 6:00pm - 7:00pm or Lights off 8:00pm -10:00pm   For information on more events like this, check out our roundup of Local Hayrides, Forest Walks, and Haunted Houses.    

$5 – $10

Event Series Sugar Skull City

Sugar Skull City

Downtown Aurora Aurora, IL, United States

Welcome to Sugar Skull City! Aurora Downtown is honoring Day of the Dead, the beloved Mexican cultural tradition, from October 15 to November 6, 2022. Join us in celebrating Dia de los Muertos with art, activities, specials, videos, shopping, and much more.

Event Series Sugar Skull City

Sugar Skull City

Downtown Aurora Aurora, IL, United States

Welcome to Sugar Skull City! Aurora Downtown is honoring Day of the Dead, the beloved Mexican cultural tradition, from October 15 to November 6, 2022. Join us in celebrating Dia de los Muertos with art, activities, specials, videos, shopping, and much more.

Event Series Sugar Skull City

Sugar Skull City

Downtown Aurora Aurora, IL, United States

Welcome to Sugar Skull City! Aurora Downtown is honoring Day of the Dead, the beloved Mexican cultural tradition, from October 15 to November 6, 2022. Join us in celebrating Dia de los Muertos with art, activities, specials, videos, shopping, and much more.

Event Series Sugar Skull City

Sugar Skull City

Downtown Aurora Aurora, IL, United States

Welcome to Sugar Skull City! Aurora Downtown is honoring Day of the Dead, the beloved Mexican cultural tradition, from October 15 to November 6, 2022. Join us in celebrating Dia de los Muertos with art, activities, specials, videos, shopping, and much more.

Jack-O-Lantern Recycling

Prairie Point Community Park 4120 Plainfield Road, Oswego, IL, United States

Go green after Halloween and drop your carved pumpkins off at Prairie Point Park between 3-5pm. These gourds will be sent sailing through the skies during the Rage Cage event that evening, then spread in the Community Gardens to fertilize the ground for next season’s plants. Only carved, seed free pumpkins will be accepted. Free...

Free

Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt

Johnston Recreation Center 172 S Circle Avenue, Bloomingdale, IL, United States

REGISTER IN ADVANCE Gobble, Gobble! Tom the Turkey is on the loose at the Johnston Recreation Center! We need your help finding him. Participants will find and solve clues hidden around the building. Craft and light refreshments provided during the event. Register one family member for section A1(for a family up to4). Register each additional...

$10 – $15

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