Seasonal & Holidays
Illinois' Best Spooky Yard: Haunted Mansion On Homestead Wins
In honor of spooky season, Patch asked readers to vote for their favorite yard haunt. Here's the winner.
LA GRANGE PARK, IL — Spooky season is almost over, but before it's gone, it's time to pay tribute to the winner of Patch's first-ever haunted yard contest.
The winner — who gets a $100 Amazon gift card — was chosen the by more than 2,000 Patch readers from among our editor-nominated entries.
The competition was tough. From a choreographed video that transforms a suburban home into a horror movie hellscape to a daycare of the damned to a sweet, Peanuts-themed haunt, there were too many great entries to pick just one.
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We left that decision to you, the readers, and you overwhelmingly voted for the Haunted Mansion on Homestead, 836 Homestead Road in La Grange Park. The Haunted Mansion took more than 47 percent of the vote in Patch's reader poll.
The Haunted Mansion pays homage to Disney and was created last year by Don Coglianese and his family. This year, the loving recreation of Disney's Haunted Mansion is even bigger and better — three times larger than it was in 2020.
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Everything in the haunt is handmade and hand-painted by the Coglianese family. As a bonus, pass by 816 Homestead to see the Haunted Mansion Butler pointing the way.
If you stop by, you can also make a donation to Autism Speaks.
Runners-up include:
- Ghouls on Glasgow, 19821 S. Glasgow Drive in Frankfort, which took 16.3 percent of the vote
- KAMME-O-CIRCUS, 1128 Liberty Drive in Elburn, which got 16 percent of the vote
- 2524 S. 8th Ave., North Riverside, which got 8.3 percent of the vote
- Count Kuhajda's Haunted Haus, 1112 N. Nicholson St. in Joliet, which got nearly 5 percent of the vote.
Congrats to the Coglianese family on being this year's yard haunt winners. You can check out a video of the family's 2021 haunt here:
We hope everyone will keep the yard haunts coming for next year. In the meantime, you can peruse the more than 200 entries we've received for Halloween 2021.
It's Halloween weekend — the perfect time to hop in the car, take a drive and check out the spooky seasonal decor in Patch's 2021 Tour O'Scary Yards. We've also broken them down by county if you just want to check out the ones closest to you:
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