Patch's Best 2024 Halloween Yard Haunts: DuPage And Kane Counties

DuPAGE-KANE COUNTY, IL — 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. Patch has assembled its annual scary yard tour for 2024, created by some of Chicagoland’s most imaginative and demented exterior decorators.

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

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. Read more about how to get on the list. If you participated in years past and didn’t get an email from us, send Patch your info.

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.

See what other counties are doing:

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

Check out these slick yard haunts in DuPage and Kane Counties:

Addison

Haunted Graveyard 218, 218 N. Pioneer Drive, Addison – This haunted cemetery offers fun for all ages. As seen on WGN and AMC 7 Chicago, Ginger Giralamo has added some spooky new friends who are dying to meet you. Great photo ops! Donations are appreciated to Lupus.

Downers Grove

Carnevil On Pershing, 6001 Pershing Ave., Downers Grove – Tom Nybo’s display is kid friendly, since he had a 4- and 7-year-old, who have a strong passion for Halloween. The yard includes a cemetery, zombie baby playground, and a spooky circus in five tents, each tent is filled with animatronics.

NEW! The Haunted Cemetery, 2308 College Road, Downers Grove – The Duncan family’s whimsical haunted cemetery and adorable pumpkin patch are up and running. The spook witches are all out every night for a fun fright. Lit 5 to 9 p.m. daily, weather permitting.

NEW! 6200 Puffer Road, Downers Grove – Pam and Bob Hren’s haunt is just fun to look at with its pumpkin patch, graveyard, witches, skeletons, and inflatable hearse and horses. They’re giving out full-size candy bars on Halloween, when the display will be animated.

Elburn

KAMME-O-CIRCUS, 1128 LIBERTY DRIVE, ELBURN — Kamme-O-Circus started over 20 years ago with 6 tombstones, 2 strobe lights and a fog machine. Since then, Mike and Anne Kothe have continued to expand, and for the past six years have offered a full-blown haunted maze/house free of charge. The themes change yearly, but the core has always been around clowns and jesters. “We take the safety of those brave enough to venture into the maze serious and as a result we are permitted by the Village of Elburn, certified in crowd control, and approved by the fire marshal,” the Kothes say. This year the theme is an insane asylum. The yard haunt features strobes, lasers, fog machines, motion sensors, cameras, and a bunch of animatronics. On Halloween, 1,000 people have been known to show up. The Kothes' yard was recently featured on WGN.

Glendale Heights

The Flagship Phantom: The Inferno, 1945 President St. Glendale Heights – This impressive yard haunt was created entirely by a 14-year-old Tristan Zamudio who has been working on it since July. The haunt features a full walk-through inside the garage and on the driveway, and a full yard display on the outside as well. See the building process on YouTube. They’ll be passing out full- and fun-size candy every night the haunt is open. Oct 19 & 26 from 6-10pm and Oct 31 from 4-10pm.

Hinsdale

421 W. North St., Hinsdale — One of the best Halloween decorations around can be found in Hinsdale. It's a friendly pumpkin patch and the pumpkins light up at night. Super cute!!

Naperville

The Jungs Monsters for A Cause, 1109 E. Bailey Rd, Naperville – Judy and Bob Jung have been delighting their neighbors with their annual Halloween yard display for many years. Their corner lot is filled with spooky, tall animated characters including the infamous IT, Buzzsaw, American Werewolf, zoomies, witches and ghosts. Walk around the haunted graveyard and see Swamp Thing, Pumpkin Man, Dark Angel, Annabelle, plus everything that goes bump in the night. Enjoy the many cobwebs with spiders including the giant one that looks down to all who pass by. It's a must see Halloween Spooktacular. On Halloween the Jung family and friends dress up in premium costumes and hand out full size candy bars and collect donations for Little Friends. Also, the home is on the Trolley Tour map. Check out the cool drone video.

NEW! The Fog Bog, 225 Ridgefield Lane, Naperville – The Prendergast family is aiming to have their yard haunt to be known as Naperville’s Foggiest Halloween Yard Display. They use a combination of a cumulus machine, three vertical jet fog machines, two hurricane fog machines, and a secret machine on standby, capable of producing stage-quality low ground fog on calm nights. The theme for this year is “The Beetlejuice Edition,” featuring five interactive props, singing pumpkins on 97.3 FM, a vortex tunnel and a laser swamp after dark. Watch the trailer!

St. Charles

NEW! Nightmare on Prairie Street, 1116 Prairie St,, St Charles – This is the Cisco’s family tenth year of decorating. They started out with barely anything and now it's out of control. “Each year we grow bigger and this year was no exception. Come check out our Carnevil of Death year display. Lights are on from dusk until 10 p.m., Sunday through Thursday, and until 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

Westchester

Graveyard Of The Afflicted, 11140 Boeger Court, Westchester – Be sure your vaccinations are up to date before visiting Nicole DeMario’s yard haunt because it’s a little bit on the scary side. The walk-thru starts in the front yard and goes from one side of the house to the back yard where there is a photo op, featuring strobes, fog and jump scares. Nicole has been decorating for ten years.

NEW! 1910 Harwarden, Wheaton – According to a neighbor, this home has the best Halloween decorations in Wheaton. The display started going up in September. Neighbors and other people have been walking and driving by daily, anxiously waiting to see this crazy house. “Now that it's finished, it's quite a spooky sight!! A Halloween ‘must see’!”

Winfield

Silverwood Screams, 0N461 Silverwood Court, Winfield – There is plenty to scream about at Kevin Bastian’s Silverwood Screams. The family-friendly cemetery is set at the end of a dark and cursed cul-de-sac. You’ll witness ground-breaking zombies, skeletons running amok, a soaring witch and many other animatronics and spooky sights – all under the watchful eye of a 12-foot, pumpkin-headed demon. Full-size candy being passed out on Halloween. Check them out in Instagram, too.

Willow Springs

Hazard House, 109 Kazwell St., Willow Springs – Julie Katello and her family change up their yard haunt every year much to the delight of their neighbors. They just love sharing the joy of Halloween. “Willow Springs' history is a haunted one, our neighbors look forward to our new decorations every year.”