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The Spooky Soiree, hosted by the Chicago Children's Advocacy Center at Alhambra Palace is a Halloween bash with all proceeds benefiting CCAC. Patrons can enjoy live entertainment from DJ’s spinning throughout the night, hors d'oeuvres and open bar for four hours.. The event will also include a costume contest, awarding the best costumes of the evening as well as a photo booth for patrons to capture the fun night on film.

Angels and Mariachis is no stranger to skeletons and dark corners - that's just this joint's vibe. So, it's no surprise that this place will get decked out for Halloween. For added fun, the best-dressed angel and mariachi will receive a $100 bar tab. The admission price includes a taco bar.

It pays to think about your costume before heading to this party. The winner of the contest will get a cool thousand, and all the finalists get cocktail party packages for up to 20 people.

Zombies aren't the only ones in a trance--Armin Van Buuren will put you in one too. Van Buuren, a master dj, will put a dance spell on you that will keep you moving all night long. Who needs a costume contest when you can dance to some of the best trance music in the world?

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Want to do something different this Halloween? Join Watson Adventures for an afternoon scavenger hunt at the Art Institute - you'll attempt to solve the murder of a curator using clues connected with secrets in the museum's works. Note: no tickets will be sold at the event, so you've gotta buy 'em in advance.

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Join over 3,000 runners/walkers as they celebrate el Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with the United Neighborhood Organization (UNO). This is Chicago's only 5k race that leads participants through the historic Pilsen and University Village neighborhoods. The race will culminate with a Day of the Dead festival. Registration begins at 6:30 a.m.; sign up early at www.signmeup.com (type in "UNO 5K"). All proceeds from the race will benefit the UNO Charter School Network's after school programs.

Head to Lincoln Avenue in Lakeview for a Halloween Eve pub crawl. The fun starts at Frasca at 6 p.m., then heads to a different bar each hour (in order, Finley Dunne's, The Shire, Beckett's, Fizz and The Pony). Each bar will feature $5 Jameson drinks and offer $100 for the best costume.

Finish off October with some one-day-only specials such as the Vampire's Kiss (Grey Goose, Sapphire gin, Patron tequila, dry vermout, tomato juice and a pinch of salt, $9), the Gremlin (Crown Royal and lime juice, $6), the Devil's Advocate (Bacardi Limon, Triple Sec, sour mix, cranberry juice and grenadine, $6) and Wicked Witch Cider (Captain Morgan and hot apple cider, $6).

Six local bars including The Original Mother's, Mother's Too, Bootleggers, The Lodge, She-Nannigans and The Hangge-Uppe will host this annual Halloween bash. Each location will feature a costume contest with a $1000 cash prize for the top winner. Bud Light bottles will be available for $3.50 and Malibu rum cocktails will be marked at $5.

All month long, Brasserie JO will feature a wide-ranging display of pumpkins. Patrons can take a shot at winning dinner for four by guessing the collective weights. See if you can figure out the giant one from Michigan. Dine at Brasserie JO on Halloween, when a winner will be announced and kids (under 12) wearing costumes score free French confections.

Brookfield Zoo guests can find out what the dinosaurs do when the gates close at night at this year’s special DinoNites. Other activities, including a 7,000-square-foot corn maze, a Tram of Terror, and arts and crafts will have ghosts and goblins of all ages screaming for more.

Celebrate Halloween with Barrel of Monkeys and fun-filled family activities at the Chicago Cultural Center. This full day of interactive workshops and performances includes fun and educational activities include a mask and costume accessory-making craft, a playwriting and acting workshop, and a hilarious performance by Barrel of Monkeys.

Get your ghoul on early for Halloween at this pre-holiday bar crawl bash. Participating venues include: Circuit, Cocktail, Firefly, Halsted's, Hydrate, The Lucky Horseshoe Lounge, Minibar, The North End, Roscoe's, Scarlet and Spin. Includes drink specials and costume prizes.

Winners of this terrifying contest have the chance to score big. Other prizes and giveaways will take place throughout the evening. A DJ will provide entertainment while guests taste plenty of spooky cocktails.

Start the Halloween weekend on Friday with Clybar and Grille's "Frightful Friday" party package and costume party. The $20 fee includes Bud Light drafts, mixed well drinks, wine, soda and buffet. Classic horror movies will play throughout the night and DJ Matt spins music until close.

Get your ghoul on early for Halloween at this pre-holiday bar crawl bash. Participating venues include: Circuit, Cocktail, Firefly, Halsted's, Hydrate, The Lucky Horseshoe Lounge, Minibar, The North End, Roscoe's, Scarlet and Spin. Includes drink specials and costume prizes.

Spend the night before Halloween ensconced in a wide array of electronic music. Chromeo, Crystal Castles and Boys Noize offer a buffet of the best in the biz. Joining them will be some of Chicago's hottest acts.
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Don't miss the one of the world's biggest djs in action on Halloween. While it's not your typical halloween party, Tiesto is certainly "hauntingly" talented.
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DJ Sativa will spin as you enjoy specialty Death's Door cocktails, candy corn and caramel corn with candied peanuts on the 29th floor of the Affinia Chicago hotel. The attendee with the scariest costume wins an overnight stay, plus a gift certificate for dinner for two at C-House downstairs. Speaking of the restaurant, it'll be offering some spooky treats on Saturday evening, including Chocolate Rats and Marzipan Severed Fingers from executive pastry chef Toni Roberts.

A shot and a beer comes with a side of spookiness at this West Loop spot on Saturday, with $3 domestic bottles and $5 shots like Pumpkin Pie and Vampire.

It’s time to vamp it up and get sucked in. This Halloween, indulge your obsession with Twilight, “True Blood,” and the vampire craze, and sink your teeth into District Bar’s “True District” bash. In addition to setting a spooky scene, District will offer all-you-can-drink for $20 from 9 – 11 p.m. and a $500 prize for the best costume.

Division Ale House offers a plethora of drink deals for Halloween including $3 Bud Light bottles, $7 build-your-own bloody marys, $5 Captain Morgan keep-the-cup cocktails and $5 chicken wings. Best costume will net a lucky someone $100.

Fuel up for a big day of trick-or-treating at the Division Ale House. Brunch features Halloween treats such as pumpkin and pecan pancakes with Granny Smith apple compote and mummy dogs with vampire dip. The regular brunch menu is also on offer.

This Dream Theatre horror play production puts the audience in the living room with a young teacher named Anna who is trapped in the house as the whole town masses to kill her. Purchase your tickets online for a discounted price; no one under 13 will be admitted.

Shayne Lamas (Lorenzo's daughter and "Bachelor" winner) will be on hand to pick the best costume - the winner gets $1000. Check out the 8,000-square-foot haunted house, too.

Tickets to this fifth annual event include a three-hour open bar from 9 p.m.-midnight, plus all the frights you can handle in the 8,000-square-foot haunted house.

Swing by Excalibur on a Friday night and you can catch Neil Tobin's one-man show, Supernatural Chicago. Tobin will feature a frightening blend of creepy stories, psychic magic and interactive activities.

If you're not too partied out from Saturday night, head to this Lincoln Park hangout for a five-hour drink package that includes a Bloody Mary and mimosa bar, along with beer, wine and call liquor. Sarks in the Park will provide catered goods like an omelet station, hash browns and sandwiches. Wear your costume from the night before, pajamas or any Bears gear (they'll show the game at noon) and get five bucks off.

Head to Lincoln Avenue in Lakeview for a Halloween Eve pub crawl. The fun starts at Frasca at 6 p.m., then heads to a different bar each hour (in order, Finley Dunne's, The Shire, Beckett's, Fizz and The Pony). Each bar will feature $5 Jameson drinks and offer $100 for the best costume.

Get your ghoul on early for Halloween at this pre-holiday bar crawl bash. Participating venues include: Circuit, Cocktail, Firefly, Halsted's, Hydrate, The Lucky Horseshoe Lounge, Minibar, The North End, Roscoe's, Scarlet and Spin. Includes drink specials and costume prizes.

Head to Lincoln Avenue in Lakeview for a Halloween Eve pub crawl. The fun starts at Frasca at 6 p.m., then heads to a different bar each hour (in order, Finley Dunne's, The Shire, Beckett's, Fizz and The Pony). Each bar will feature $5 Jameson drinks and offer $100 for the best costume.

You have two options for celebrating Halloween at Fizz. On the first floor, a $5 cover gets you in for a costume contest and Stoli specials all night. Upstairs, there'll be another costume contest, drinking games and a four-hour open bar (call liquor) for $35.

Chicago Nerd Social Club (yes, there is one) hosts this geeky party with four costume contests, including one for "Nerdiest Costume". We're guessing the beer-pong tables will be in use.

Fox & Obel Executive Baker Pamela will celebrate the season by showing you tricks to make the tastiest treats on the block. Learn the basics of preparing crunchy, sweet tarts using fresh ingredients and festive toppings in a class guaranteed to freak you out with how tasty it is.

Head to Lincoln Avenue in Lakeview for a Halloween Eve pub crawl. The fun starts at Frasca at 6 p.m., then heads to a different bar each hour (in order, Finley Dunne's, The Shire, Beckett's, Fizz and The Pony). Each bar will feature $5 Jameson drinks and offer $100 for the best costume.

Night-time creatures, like fruit bats, spiders and owls make a rare daytime greenhouse appearance in this all-ages event.

Kids in costume receive a free dessert.

On the last outdoor day of the market, there will be a special kids party including a costume contest, a kid-focused tour of the market and, of course, sweet treats courtesy of participating pastry chefs.

Want to party early? This Lincoln Park hang begins its celebration right when the college games kick off. Specials include $3 Blood Lights. Guess what those are.

Get your ghoul on early for Halloween at this pre-holiday bar crawl bash. Participating venues include: Circuit, Cocktail, Firefly, Halsted's, Hydrate, The Lucky Horseshoe Lounge, Minibar, The North End, Roscoe's, Scarlet and Spin. Includes drink specials and costume prizes.

Six local bars including The Original Mother's, Mother's Too, Bootleggers, The Lodge, She-Nannigans and The Hangge-Uppe will host this annual Halloween bash. Each location will feature a costume contest with a $1000 cash prize for the top winner. Bud Light bottles will be available for $3.50 and Malibu rum cocktails will be marked at $5.

Grab your most frightful costume and head to Harry Caray's Tavern for this spooktacular event. DJ Squeeze will get the crowd going with his masterful mixes. Popular Halloween movies will also be playing on the Tavern's 10' HD TV, as well as 56 flat screens throughout the bar.

Dress up, dance and drink at the Hideout's Halloween prom, featuring neurotic vampire comedian "Gory" Morey Lestat; Rutherford B. Bloodbath and his Halloween Band Who, Thankfully, Will Not Be Covering Any Misfits Songs Tonight (but will be covering all other rock bands); and Johnny and the Limelites, a nautically themed dance-worthy band. To top it off, DJs Melissa and Sam (from Laurie's Planet of Sound) will spin Halloween jams. Go if you dare.

While others are doing the Monster Mash, you can be tearing it up with Sasha and Hernan Catteneo. One of the foremost djs in the world, Cattaneo was discovered and signed by dj legend Paul Oakenfold.
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If you don't feel like joining in the craziness that is the North Halsted Halloween Parade, you can watch the action on a projection screen at this bar, then enjoy a costume contest with $1,000 in prizes.

Frenemies are all the rage now, from Lauren and Heidi to Paula and Simon - and J Bar (at the James Hotel) is getting in on the trend iwth this party. The bar will serve up Svedka Vodka cocktails like the Speidi-tini, the John & Kate and the Spooky Spelling ($6 each) while you groove to the sounds of DJ Kevin Taek. "Mean Girls" will play in the background, and the couple with the best frenemies-related costume will win a VIP party for up to 20 guests.

The Chicago Scene presents the Dead Man's Ball 2009 features three floors of frightful fun. Entertainment includes both a live band and DJs Andres spinning Top 40 and classic rock. Dress to impress as your favorite tabloid celebrity--the winner scores two tickets to Chicago Scene's New Year's Eve Party at The Drake Hotel.

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LaSalle Power Co. keeps the party going with live music and DJ Andres spinning Top 40 and classic rock, plus LPC screens creepy classic horror flicks on the bar's flat-screens and 170-inch plasma video wall. Inclusive packages are available for $30.

This “Thriller” decorated club is the perfect place to meet fellow MJ lovers. Featuring a midnight Halloween-themed fashion show featuring painted models strutting to the tunes of Michael Jackson.

Little Bucharest Bistro promises to officially bring Dracula back to life during Halloween. Guests can sink their teeth into a tempting $25 dollar Transylvania Tasting Menu and “Drac-tastic” drinks.

Get your ghoul on early for Halloween at this pre-holiday bar crawl bash. Participating venues include: Circuit, Cocktail, Firefly, Halsted's, Hydrate, The Lucky Horseshoe Lounge, Minibar, The North End, Roscoe's, Scarlet and Spin. Includes drink specials and costume prizes.

LuxLounge celebrates Halloween with famous faces back from the grave for one night only. Guests are encouraged to dress as their favorite deceased celebrities. The star-studded evening will include drink specials, Halloween candy and a special costume contest judged at midnight by the famous, all-female LuxLounge DJs. The winner of the costume contest will walk away with a $500 Gibsons Group gift card. The runner up will receive a $250 Luxbar cocktail party, and the third place winner will leave with a Bacardi and Grey Goose gift basket.

Mac's will be decorated with Halloween décor and the bar will screen classic horror flicks on the flat-screens in addition to sports. A costume contest at 12:30 a.m. will net someone a $100 prize for first place, a $50 bar tab for second place and a $25 bar tab for third place.

Kids in costume receive a free dessert.

The Scooty & JoJo Show presents Carpenters Halloween now in its 3rd year. The play is a spine-shivering send-up of John Carpenter's horror classic set to the The Carpenters' classic songs. For information and tickets, visit scootyjojo.com or call 1-800-838-3006 .

It behooves you to come early (no cover before midnight if you're wearing a costume) and stay late (2 a.m. costume contest with $500 in prizes) at this Lincoln Park party.

In celebration of Halloween, Meson Sabika hosts an event for children will feature a costume contest and pumpkin painting. In addition, kids eat free and will also receive a surprise spooky treat.

Get your ghoul on early for Halloween at this pre-holiday bar crawl bash. Participating venues include: Circuit, Cocktail, Firefly, Halsted's, Hydrate, The Lucky Horseshoe Lounge, Minibar, The North End, Roscoe's, Scarlet and Spin. Includes drink specials and costume prizes.

Six local bars including The Original Mother's, Mother's Too, Bootleggers, The Lodge, She-Nannigans and The Hangge-Uppe will host this annual Halloween bash. Each location will feature a costume contest with a $1000 cash prize for the top winner. Bud Light bottles will be available for $3.50 and Malibu rum cocktails will be marked at $5.

Nacional 27's "Goth and Glam Gala" Halloween costume party welcomes glamorous and goulish guests for passed tapas and open premium bar from 8 p.m.-midnight featuring Adam Seger's award-winning, signature libations. Entertainment for the evening will include live music by La Tremenda Rumba, DJ Cairo and DJ George Perez.Prizes will be awarded throughout the night.

Help inaugurate the 2009 Halloween and haunted house season on Navy Pier. Zombies are invited to gather at the fountain in front of Navy Pier where they'll shamble their way through the inside of the Pier and back down the outer deck and directly into The Fear Haunted House where they will get in free.

Buy a one-way ticket and come aboard this haunted ship at Chicago's historic Navy Pier. This ship is filled with strange and spooky cargo of zombie clowns, vampires and monsters. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

Get your ghoul on early for Halloween at this pre-holiday bar crawl bash. Participating venues include: Circuit, Cocktail, Firefly, Halsted's, Hydrate, The Lucky Horseshoe Lounge, Minibar, The North End, Roscoe's, Scarlet and Spin. Includes drink specials and costume prizes.

This crazy costume party in Boystown is not for the faint of heart - but it is for the creative. If you think you've got what it takes,enter the costume contest after the parade. If nothing else, you're sure to get some ideas for next year.

NV Penthouse Lounge hosts “True Blood Friday” a vampire-themed event with dancers. It's safe to say this party will have "bite."

NV Penthouse Lounge Hosts “Demons Penthouse." The costume contest winner receives a bottle of Belvedere Vodka and 1999 vintage Dom Perignon.

O’Donovan’s Pub and Restaurant hosts a festive monster Mash Bash Halloween. A costume contest and DJ will keep you entertained, while you sip "scary" libations and nosh on festive food.

You can win $100 in the costume contest, or just enjoy the DJ'd dance music and $4 UV bombs at this party.

Kids in costume receive a free dessert.

Oracle Productions is back with its fourth installment of its terrifying series that's becoming a Chicago staple during the Halloween season. This 15-minute theatrical show puts audiences in a confined room and only a few feet away from all the action that the creators hope will leave the audiences disturbed. Due to the explicit themes of the production, only adult 18 years old and older are allowed.

Wind your way through nearly one-half mile of spine-tingling terror in the woods. The trails are crawling with creepy characters set in a small seaside town haunted by the ghostly remains of their crews. Trails of Terror 2009 is recommended for ages 8 and up.

Vaudezilla fetes the newest graduates of its school for the scary 'n' sexy with a Halloween ceremony unlike any other, featuring burlesque stars like Red Hot Annie, Bonny Babs and Maria May I. In addition to the show, there will be drinks, a costume contest ($100 Early 2 Bed gift bag to the winner) and a raffle.

Families are invited to join Chef John Coletta and Quartino for a traditional Halloween celebration with complimentary pumpkin carving on their al fresco patio in preparation for Halloween. Quartino will service complimentary candy apples and candy corn treats.

Kids in costume receive a free dessert.

Religion offers two levels of debauchery on Halloween eve, with the main room (Heaven) featuring angelic-themed cocktails and salsa, hip-hop and pop and the basement (Hell) featuring devil-themed drinks and house music. There will be a costume contest, with first prize going to the best/most original angel/demon costume, and second and third prizes awarded to the sexiest and scariest get-ups. You can choose to pay a $20 cover, $40 for entry and open bar 'til 1 a.m. (must have a costume), or $50 for entry and premium open bar (costume required).

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Rockwood beefs up their regular $10 all-you-can-eat brunch by decking the buffet in a Halloween theme, right down to the trick-or-treat candies and Count Chocula cereal.

Whip out your best pinstripes and head to Rockwood Place, which will be haunted by the Roaring 20s. Staffers at Rockwood Place will be decked in 1920s gangster-themed costumes and they want you to dress up too. Rockwood's resident DJ spins pop, rock, top 40 and hip hop.

Live it up in style this year at ROOF for the "Night of Halloween Icons and the 9th Annual Black i Ball Party. Walk the red carpet and fight off the paparazzi you compete in a $1000 costume contest.

The Pleasant Home Foundation is sponsoring a special Halloween event including a rare interior tour of Rosehill Cemetery’s Chapel, designed by renowned Chicago Architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1899) led by Chicago architect and Silsbee scholar Christopher Payne. The Chapel tour will be followed by a visit to the family gravesite of Pleasant Home architect George W. Maher and a talk by Maher scholar Kathleen Cummings on this legendary Chicago Prairie Style architect.

DJ Psycho Bitch will have you dancing all night as you suck down $5 Stoli bombs. If you're interested, the bar will offer free zombie-makeup jobs between 2-5 p.m.

Sheffield’s Lakeview is hosting its Annual Pumpkin Carving Night. Sheffield’s will house a surplus of pumpkins for guests to carve and decorate for free, while supplies last. Staff will display the spooky jack-o-lanterns to illuminate the interior of the bar over Halloween weekend.

Sheffield's will host a Pumpkin Carving Night where patrons can claim pumpkins and carve them on Sheffield’s spacious patio while enjoying the new menu and daily specials. These jack-o-lanterns will also be displayed throughout the restaurant and bar in light of Halloween festivities.

Six local bars including The Original Mother's, Mother's Too, Bootleggers, The Lodge, She-Nannigans and The Hangge-Uppe will host this annual Halloween bash. Each location will feature a costume contest with a $1000 cash prize for the top winner. Bud Light bottles will be available for $3.50 and Malibu rum cocktails will be marked at $5.

There's trick-or-treating during the day, but at night, Six Flags Great America turns into a land of ghosts and ghouls, with haunted houses, freaky feasts and more.

If you're heading to the North Halsted Halloween Parade, this Boystown bar would be a good place to stop afterward. DJ Greg Haus presides over a party that includes a costume/drag contest.

Looking for a haunt with a good cause? The Saint Pascal Haunted House has been scaring locals for 21 years with all proceeds going to Saint Pascal School. Come along with a group of friends and family for a discounted group rate, and check the website for a $1 off coupon.

Wind your way through 30 maximum-security cells on a tour of this haunted prison where you will encounter 200 of its most terrifying inmates that include Hannibal the Cannibal and its demonic warden. Children under 10 years of age are not allowed in while those under the age of 15 must be accompanied by an adult. Check out the website for more.

For this Midwest premiere, InFusion Theatre Company brings creepy puppets and visual spectacle to a very human tale of an imaginative and inventive stay-at-home dad. In his Midwest farm house, he creates a beautiful yet bizarre world of puppets, costumed characters and fanciful stories for his young daughter. But all is not what it seems in this suspense-filled and disturbing tale of love, loss and danger appropriate for the Halloween season.

It’s time to get creative as SUSHISAMBA hosts COSPLAY, inspired by the costume + play subculture of Japan. The night will be filled with terror-ific tunes by DJ Dracula. One creative costumer will take home a $1,000 cash prize.

A costume contest and DJs...for once, this oversize Wicker Park bar decides to keep things simple.

Visit the abandoned Campana factory were workers were once killed in many gruesome ways. They still roam the halls - so you never know who you might bump into.

This Halloween at Grotto Oak Brook you can dance under the moonlight in the fully heated and enclosed outdoor deck while listening to the musical stylings of The Jerry Devivo Band and DJ Geno Del Boccio.

Six local bars including The Original Mother's, Mother's Too, Bootleggers, The Lodge, She-Nannigans and The Hangge-Uppe will host this annual Halloween bash. Each location will feature a costume contest with a $1000 cash prize for the top winner. Bud Light bottles will be available for $3.50 and Malibu rum cocktails will be marked at $5.

Six local bars including The Original Mother's, Mother's Too, Bootleggers, The Lodge, She-Nannigans and The Hangge-Uppe will host this annual Halloween bash. Each location will feature a costume contest with a $1000 cash prize for the top winner. Bud Light bottles will be available for $3.50 and Malibu rum cocktails will be marked at $5.

Head to Lincoln Avenue in Lakeview for a Halloween Eve pub crawl. The fun starts at Frasca at 6 p.m., then heads to a different bar each hour (in order, Finley Dunne's, The Shire, Beckett's, Fizz and The Pony). Each bar will feature $5 Jameson drinks and offer $100 for the best costume.

Head to Lincoln Avenue in Lakeview for a Halloween Eve pub crawl. The fun starts at Frasca at 6 p.m., then heads to a different bar each hour (in order, Finley Dunne's, The Shire, Beckett's, Fizz and The Pony). Each bar will feature $5 Jameson drinks and offer $100 for the best costume.

Like to drink differently? The Tasting Room's Masquerade Ball includes an open bar featuring a dedicated champagne bar, sommelier-selected wines and craft beer, a Martini Luge, plus a Halloween cocktail menu selected by mixologist Nick Luedde. There will also be a live DJ and passed hors d'oeuvres courtesy of executive chef Marc Kuchenbecker. Reservations are required; call (312) 942-1313 between 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Timothy O'Toole's Pub Chicago will offer karaoke and a Halloween costume contest, with $500 in prizes and giveaways. Take advantage of the $3 Miller Lite, Miller High Life and Coors Light.

Crave out some time in your Friday night for Timothy O'Toole's pumpkin carving contest. Prizes will be awarded for the best carved pumpkin.

Toyota Park turns its attention from soccer (this is where the Chicago Fire plays) to spooks, as it becomes the new home for a frightful experience that’s been scaring Bridgeviewers for 30-plus years. Kids under 7 get free admission to the Hollow, but it’s really only recommended for those above that age.

Uncle Fatty's becomes "Terror Island" and hosts "The Battle Of Terror Island." The party offers four up-and-coming cover bands (Black Cadillac, Alternative Theory, Random and Hifi Superstars) competing in a "battle of the bands" throwdown where the winner will take home a $1,000 cash prize and a future gig at Uncle Fatty's. There are also costume prizes and drink specials.

In October Uncle Fatty's becomes "Terror Island" and hosts the "Midnight Massacre Party." The party features a drinking contest, a $100 cash prize to the best male and best female Halloween costumes, music and drink specials.

Been waiting to dress like a "Twilight" or "True Blood" character? Then this is your jam. The Underground’s DJs Jordan V'ampire and Jugular Rose will keep your blood pumping.

Mike Dangeroux (live reggae, 8-11 p.m.) and DJ Alvin Black III ('til 2:30 a.m.) provide the entertainment at this voodoo-themed party at the dana hotel and spa. There's no charge at the door, and glasses of Veuve champagne are available for $19 each ($85/bottle), and a cocktail cart will feature hot drinks like spiked warm toddies, chocolates, ciders and coffees. Costumes are encouraged.

Forget the haunted house--and check out some of the best house music in the world when John Digweed is joined by Wahi. The only thing that scary about it is how good it is.
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W Hotel hosts a sassy Halloween gathering as Kaya Jones from the World Famous Pussycat Dolls performs with Chicago's top club DJs like Nathan Scott and Victor R. A virtual costume contest will yield a $1000 prize. Room specials are available at the hotel.
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W Chicago - Lakeshore is being transformed into a mystical magical realm. Characters such as Willy Wonka, Snow White, Cinderella and Peter Pan will make an appearance.