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Downers Grove Named a Top City for Trick-or-Treating: Study

Get your candy bucket ready.

When it comes to costumed candy collection, it doesn’t get much better than trick-or-treating in Downers Grove, according to a recent study by Nextdoor.

Downers Grove was named the No. 7 top U.S city for trick-or-treating.

Cary, North Carolina was named the best of all cities for trick-or-treating, and Boise, Idaho was named No. 10.

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The community social network created the list by analyzing data from the neighborhoods that use Nextdoor’s annual Treat Map. The map lets people indicate if they will pass out candy on Halloween.

In Illinois, Downers Grove has the highest ratio of Nextdoor members who said they would pass out candy in 2014 to the total number of Nextdoor members in the city.

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