Haunted House Chicago’s 2025 Top 13
Each year, Haunted House Chicago visits as many haunted attractions, events, and happenings within 100 miles of Chicago as possible. We then assemble a list of the best haunted attractions from that season. For more details on this, please click here: https://www.hauntedhousechicago.com/reviews-awards/top-13-haunts/ As this Halloween night comes to a close, we find ourselves at the apex of yet another haunting season. But, before we bid farewell to another memorable October, it is finally time to present the 2025 Official Haunted House Chicago Top 13. After traversing well over 3,000 miles this season, here is our list of the best around: HellsGate...
2025 Haunted Attraction of the Year
Each year, Haunted House Chicago visits as many haunted attractions within 100 miles of Chicago as possible. We then award the best overall haunted attraction from that season. As our 26th season comes to a close, Haunted House Chicago would like to formally congratulate the 2025 Haunted Attraction of the Year: HellsGate Haunted House Lockport, Illinois https://www.hellsgate.com/ Congratulations on an outstanding season! #SpreadTheScream #HellsGate #HG #HauntedHouseChicago #HHC #SupportYourLocalHauntedHouse #Halloweek #HellWeek #Halloween #Top13
2025 Jim Warfield Acting Award
Each year, Haunted House Chicago visits as many haunted attractions within 100 miles of Chicago as possible. We then identify and award the the top actor(s)/actress(es) from that season who provided extraordinary performances. The award is named after Jim Warfield of Raven’s Grin Inn. For more details on this award please click here: https://www.hauntedhousechicago.com/reviews-awards/warfieldaward/ Haunted House Chicago would like to formally congratulate the recipients of the 2025 Jim Warfield Acting Award: Emily Fuchsen as “Jane Doe" from Old Joliet Haunted Prison in Joliet, Illinois https://hauntedprison.com/ and Zach Webb as “Tavis Duson" From Twisted Crypt Haunted House in Rockford, Illinois https://www.twistedcrypt.com/...
2025 New Haunted Attraction of the Year
Each year, Haunted House Chicago visits as many haunted attractions and events within 100 miles of Chicago as possible. We then award the best new haunted attraction from that season. For more details on this award, please click here: http://www.hauntedhousechicago.com/reviews-awards/bestnewhaunt/ Haunted House Chicago would like to formally congratulate the 2025 New Haunted Attraction of the Year: American Nightmare Scream Park Spring Grove, Illinois https://www.scareamerica.net/ Congratulations on an outstanding first season! Stay tuned for more award announcements throughout Halloween! #SpreadTheScream #ANSP #AmericanNightmare #AmericanNightmareScreamPark #FearTheCorn #HauntedHouseChicago #HHC #SupportYourLocalHauntedHouse #Halloweek #HellWeek #Halloween
Happy Halloween 2025!
OUR day is finally here! It is Friday, October 31, 2025, and that means it is HALLOWEEN! From all of us at Haunted House Chicago, to all of you and yours, we wish you a very safe, haunted, and happy Halloween! MANY Haunted Attractions are open tonight for some of their final screams of the season, so make sure you go and celebrate! For their final evening, make sure to check out an amazing yard display or home haunt near you courtesy of Chicago Haunt Builders: https://chicagohauntbuilders.org. Rumor has it, MANY of them are stacked in the trick or treating...
Sponsor Spotlight: HellsGate Haunted House
We are very grateful to HellsGate Haunted House for being a 2025 Featured Attraction and Sponsor of Haunted House Chicago! Hidden deep in the woods, HellsGate is a multi-level mansion filled with secret passages, giant slides, ghastly secrets, undead abominations, really nervous groundskeepers and a darkness that the gate can no longer contain! This is not just a haunted house, it's an adventure! Since you were a kid, you've heard about the haunted house with the giant slide, the one hidden out in the woods, the one where you can win your money back, but you were never able to find...