Patch's 2024 Guide To Chicagoland's Best Halloween Yard Haunts

CHICAGOLAND — Welcome back to the Tour o’ Scary Yards for 2024, showcasing the best Halloween lawn displays, created by some of Chicagoland's most imaginative and demented exterior decorators. If you're looking for new zombie graveyards, body parts, floating ghosts and devil's playgrounds to explore for Halloween, you've come to the right place.

Given the scary yard tour’s past history of breaking the internet, we have organized the 2024 list by county. So click on the links below for the list of scary yards near your house, or go crazy and visit them all.

• Cook County/Chicago
• DuPage/Kane Counties
• Lake/McHenry Counties
• Will/Kendall/Grundy/DeKalb

GET ON THE LIST. We LOVE reader submissions, so we'll be updating the list every FRIDAY leading up to Halloween. So send in your pictures and tell us why your yard haunt is worth a drive-by to lorraine.swanson@patch.com.

Please include the following information and follow these guidelines:

- We prefer that the homeowner submit his or her own yard, or at least an immediate neighbor or close relative.
- Include the exact address of the yard haunt and your phone number (not for publication) in case we need to get in touch with you.
- Have we featured your house before? May we use photos from prior years? (If you're changing up your display, we can insert the new ones later.)
- Let us know the date when your yard haunt goes live and when it shuts off for the evening, so looky-loos aren’t bothering your neighbors.
- Does your yard haunt have a name? Be sure to include it, or we can help you make one up.
- Will you be planning anything special for your display, like actors, walk-throughs, popcorn machines, etc.?
- Tell us what makes your yard haunt special.
- Does your display have a Facebook page or website? Be sure to include the links.
- Most importantly, what kind of candy will you be passing out to trick or treaters.

Also, check out these lists for more scary yards throughout the Chicago area: Chicago Haunt Builders, Haunted Illinois Directory, Illinois Haunted Houses and We Love Halloween. There's free fun to be had in the days leading up to Halloween, so set your GPS for these spooky standbys and nightmarish newbies.