THIS WEEKEND IN CHICAGO — Halloween Just Around the Corner!
With all the hoopla going on around here with the Chicago Cubs, Halloween is just around the corner, but before then, this weekend brings Chicagoans some great pre-Halloween festivities in preparation for Halloween!
Come out and support the 2nd annual Halloween Gathering Festival & Parade this Saturday (2:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.) at Millennium Park (201 E. Randolph St.) in The Loop. The Daytime Festival takes place from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. in Millennium Park and Sir George Solti Garden with family-friendly activities that include free performances, arts & crafts, pop-up installations, an enchant tent, a kids’ costume procession, a theatricks stage and more. And as dusk arrives, the Spectacle Parade takes place from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. traveling north on Columbus Ave. from Balbo St. to Monroe St. with a procession filled with costumes, performances, music, dance, dramatic lighting, moving platforms and more. Time to put on your favorite costume and join the spooky fun!!
Navy Pier (600 E. Grand Ave.) in the Streeterville neighborhood brings Halloween At The Pier with some of the following events:
Seadog Haunted Tour provided by Seadog Cruises with tours departing at 6:15 p.m. every Friday, Saturday & Sunday accompanied by a costumed tour guide while learning about Chicago’s eerie past – and, it’s even kid-friendly!
Chicago Children’s Museum offers kid-friendly fun where they can create their own costume, or paint their own face, or decorate sugar skulls and more!
Trick-Or-Treat from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. where Pier vendors handout candy provided by the Ferrara Candy Company to costume-clad children as well as stamping a Halloween passport redeemable for a fun surprise!
Hotel Transylvania Movie in the Park (weather permitting) this Saturday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in Polk Bros Park!
Dogs and their humans are invited to trick-or-treat up and down Halsted Street (3190 N. Halsted St.) in the Lakeview neighborhood this Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the Lakeview Halloween Pup Crawl! Dress-up your pup, and yourself, as you trick-or-treat and get lots of free stuff for the both of you as well as having a change to win prizes! Afterwards at 1:00 p.m. the after-party continues at Side Tracks!!
Finally, Sunday brings the Chicago Monster Dash to Soldier Field (1410 S. Museum Campus Dr.) in the South Loop with the Monster Half Marathon (9:00 a.m.), the Monster Dash 10K (9:30 a.m.), and the Monster Dash 5K (9:40 a.m.) with the runners all decked out in their wild and wacky Halloween costumes! Be sure to check out their website for all the updated rules as they’re trying something new this year for the costume contest!!
The Logan Theatre (2646 N. Milwaukee Ave.) in the Logan Square neighborhood is hosting their 5th Annual Horror Movie Madness Festival throughout October with the following films being shown this weekend:
Night of the Living Dead (1968) – this Saturday & Sunday (10:30 p.m.)
A group of people hide from bloodthirsty zombies in a farmhouse.
Beetlejuice (1988) – this Saturday & Sunday (11:00 p.m.)
A couple of recently deceased ghosts contract the services of a “bio-exorcist” in order to remove the obnoxious new owners of their house.
Get Your Halloween Fix In Now Since the Cubs Hoopla May Trickle Into Next Weekend!
SUE MOSS & DEAN’S TEAM CHICAGO
