Patch's 2026 Guide To Chicagoland's Best Halloween Yard Haunts

CHICAGOLAND — Welcome back to the Patch Tour o’ Scary Yards for 2026 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 history of breaking the internet, we have organized the 2026 list by county. Unless noted, most yard haunts are now up and shocking their neighbors, so you’re not wasting gas at $4.65 per gallon. Support your neighbors who are blowing up their electric bills.

Click on the links below for the list of scary yards near your house.

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

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 on how to get included in the Patch 2026 Tour o' Scary Yards.

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.