Sponsor Spotlight: HellsGate Haunted House

We are very grateful to HellsGate Haunted House for being a 2023 Featured Attraction and Sponsor of Haunted House Chicago! HellsGate Haunted House is open on multiple evenings remaining in the 2023 season. Please check our their website for dates and tickets. Make sure you don't miss out on a chance to experience and interact with many of their well-known characters throughout your haunted adventure at HellsGate! HellsGate Haunted House 3101 Canal Street Lockport, IL 60441 https://www.hellsgate.com/ Vital Signs: Opened: 2016 Number of seasons-to-date: 7 (closed in 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic) Number of attractions: 1 (but a 3-part adventure) Size: 2 acres...

Sponsor Spotlight: Niles Scream Park

We are very grateful to Niles Scream Park for being a 2023 Featured Attraction and Sponsor of Haunted House Chicago! Niles Scream Park is open on multiple evenings remaining in the 2023 season. Please check our their website for dates and tickets. Make sure you don't miss your chance to celebrate their 50th Anniversary as one of the longest running haunted attractions in the country! Niles Scream Park 855 Mayflower Road Niles, MI 49120 https://haunted.org/ Vital Signs: Opened: 1973 Number of seasons-to-date: 50 (Tied for longest in the country!) Number of attractions: 7 Number of actors: 200+ Size: 44 Acres Setting: Indoor/Outdoor Parking: Free, on-site Fun...

Sponsor Spotlight: Basement of the Dead & Shattered 3D Haunted House

We are very grateful to Basement of the Dead & Shattered 3D Haunted House for being a 2023 Featured Attraction and Sponsor of Haunted House Chicago! Basement is open on multiple evenings remaining in the 2023 season. Please check our their website for dates and tickets. Make sure you don't miss your last chance to see Shattered 3D, as the second attraction here will be evolving into something new for 2024. Basement of the Dead & Shattered 3D 42 W New York Street Aurora, IL 60506 https://basementofthedead.com/ Vital Signs: Opened: 2003 originally, new owners took over in 2010 Number of seasons-to-date: 20...

Sponsor Spotlight: Disturbia Haunted House

We are very grateful to Disturbia Haunted House for being a 2023 Featured Attraction and Sponsor of Haunted House Chicago! Disturbia is open for a special Monday performance TONIGHT, Monday, October 16, 2023, as well as multiple evenings remaining in the 2023 season! Please check our their website for dates and tickets. Disturbia Haunted House 1213 Butterfield Road, Suite D Downers Grove, IL 60515 https://hauntedhousedisturbia.com/ Vital Signs: Number of seasons-to-date: 4th under new ownership, multiple before Number of actors: 60 Size: 12,000 Square Feet Setting: Indoor/Outdoor Unique Features: An outdoor DJ and party scene! Parking: Free, on-site Fun Fact: This haunted attraction has its sister...

Return of The Park After Dark

The producers of the The Park After Dark are thrilled to announce that their charity haunted house, run by the after-school teen program at Chase Park in Chicago, is back after 4 years for the 2023 season! After winning the the Haunted House Chicago Best New Haunted Attraction in 2018, and their 2019 follow-up show, "The Attic," their doors were shuddered by the pandemic. But, like a great zombie; they have risen from the dead! The Park After Dark 2023 season will debut at Chase Park on Friday, October 20th, and run Friday-Sunday for the last two weekends of October. ...

Friday, October 13, 2023

Aside from Halloween, Friday the 13th may be the next most-celebrated holiday for haunters. But, why? What inspired legions of folks to suffer from triskaidekaphobia and fueled an over 40-year old slasher franchise? Some say the history is rooted to the time of the last supper, and some say the middle ages, but the most popular origin story seems to be surrounding the attack of some Knights Templar on October 13, 1307. Fun Fact: The next Friday the 13th in October won't be until 2028; so let's live this night to the fullest! While most of us put in effort...