Northbrook Halloween Events

Northbrook Halloween 2025

What to Expect This Halloween in Northbrook!

Northbrook halloween centers at Northbrook Court and downtown with family-friendly spooky nights and themed mall events. Enjoy fall festivals in downtown Northbrook, pumpkin patches at local farms, and haunted neighborhood walks near Techny Prairie Park.

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Northbrook Halloween Events

Northbrook Family-Friendly Fall Activities (1)

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📍 Northbrook, IL, US
(0.9 mi from Northbrook)

Halloween 3K Fun Run

Halloween 3K Fun Run with costume contest

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Friday, October 24, 2025

Event Details

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💰 Budget: $
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⚡ Energy: Moderate

Event Description

Lace up your running shoes and don your best costume for the annual Halloween 3K Fun Run and Walk! This festive event winds through the scenic Techny Prairie Park and Fields, offering a perfect way to embrace the spooky season. After crossing the finish line, participants can enjoy themed activities and a lively costume contest.

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⭐ Best For: Families and runners looking for a fun, festive halloween activity.
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Near Northbrook

Highland Park Halloween Events

Three stylized figures are carving pumpkins for Halloween. The figure on the left is a young girl with dark hair in a bun, wearing overalls. The middle figure has long black hair and is dressed in a striped shirt, with face paint resembling a skull. The figure on the right wears a wide-brimmed hat adorned with flowers and a red plaid shirt, also with skull face paint. They are all gathered around several carved and uncarved pumpkins, with a festive, autumnal background filled with more pumpkins and fall decorations.
Glencoe
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Night of 1,000 Jack-o'-Lanterns

Over 1,000 artist-carved jack-o'-lanterns
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 $$ 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 2.5 miles from Northbrook
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A young woman with dark hair in a bun, wearing an orange plaid shirt and grey overalls, sits in a pumpkin patch on a sunny autumn day, smiling and pointing at a pumpkin. In the background, a wooden shed with jack-o-lanterns, a horse-drawn cart filled with pumpkins, and other people are visible.
Highwood
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The Great Highwood Pumpkin Festival

15th annual festival with a full carnival and live music.
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 $ 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 5.4 miles from Northbrook
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Wilmette Halloween Events

A charming street scene decorated for Halloween, with people walking past shops adorned with pumpkins and autumn leaves. Two children, one dressed as a witch and the other in a hooded jacket, are in the foreground, holding pumpkins.
Evanston
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Central Street Trick Or Treat

Community trick-or-treat event on Central Street
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 FREE 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 7.0 miles from Northbrook
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Mount Prospect Halloween Events

Two smiling young women in Halloween hats pose with pumpkins at a pumpkin patch, with a tractor and scarecrow in the background.
110 W Camp McDonald Rd
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Spookfest

Haunted Hayride with scarecrow competition and Trunk or Treat.
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 $$ 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 6.1 miles from Northbrook
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Two children, a girl and a boy, are dressed up for Halloween on a suburban street decorated with pumpkins and string lights. The girl is kneeling on the sidewalk with her hands on her cheeks, smiling excitedly, while the boy stands beside her in a cape and glasses. A full moon hangs in the night sky above the houses.
Mount Prospect
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Spooktacular Halloween Decorating Contest

Community-wide Halloween decorating contest with interactive map
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 FREE 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 7.0 miles from Northbrook
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Des Plaines Halloween Events

A terrifying green-skinned creature with sharp teeth and long claws lunges towards two people on a subway car, illuminated by eerie green and pink lights.
Des Plaines
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Invasion on Grant

Full color black light home haunt with custom animatronics.
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 FREE 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 7.7 miles from Northbrook
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Buffalo Grove Halloween Events

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Buffalo Grove
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Trick or Treat Trail

Friendly characters handing out candy on a no-scare trail.
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 FREE 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 6.9 miles from Northbrook
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A boy and a girl with cartoonish features are sitting in a pumpkin patch with a camel in the background, surrounded by autumn trees.
Lincolnshire
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Happy Times Pumpkin Fest at Didier Farms

Chicagoland's fall tradition at Didier Farms
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 $$ 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 7.8 miles from Northbrook
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Niles Halloween Events

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Chicago
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Pumpkinpalooza

Free fall festival with carnival games and pumpkin painting
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 FREE 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 9.3 miles from Northbrook
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Two children dressed as elderly people play instruments at a bustling autumn festival. Stalls decorated with fall foliage and lights line the street, while other festival-goers enjoy the music and atmosphere.
Chicago
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Norwood Park Fall Fest

Weekend fall festival with live music and family activities
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 $ 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 9.5 miles from Northbrook
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Skokie Halloween Events

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Skokie
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Scream Scene Haunted House

Terrifying haunted house with chainsaw maniacs and clown maze
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 $$ 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 8.3 miles from Northbrook
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Park Ridge Halloween Events

Two cartoon children, one dressed as a witch, hold glowing sticks in a park decorated with pumpkins and string lights for Halloween.
Park Ridge
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Fright Night Glow Teen Halloween Extravaganza

Teen-focused Halloween 'glow' event with costume contest.
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📏 7.3 miles from Northbrook
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Schiller Park
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13th Floor Haunted House Chicago

Two distinct haunted attractions: Shattered Skyline and World's Fair.
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 $$ 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 11.0 miles from Northbrook
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Arlington Heights Halloween Events

All Hallows Eve in Arlington Heights
Arlington Heights
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All Hallows Eve

Family-friendly Halloween fun at a historical museum
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 $ 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 8.4 miles from Northbrook
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Three diverse cartoon children smiling in front of a swimming pool. A Black boy and a Latina girl are in the foreground, with a white boy behind them. Other children are visible swimming in the pool.
Arlington Heights
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Teen Night: Spooky Movie at Arlington Ridge Center

Exclusive teen night with movie, swim, and gym
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 $$ 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 8.7 miles from Northbrook
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Evanston Halloween Events

A group of runners, some of whom are zombies, participate in a race. The runners are wearing bibs with numbers and some are holding flags. The scene is set outdoors with trees and grass in the background.
Evanston
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Evanston Zombie Scramble

10th annual Zombie Scramble with limited-edition anniversary shirts.
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 $$ 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 8.2 miles from Northbrook
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Evanston
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Downtown Evanston Trick or Treat Stroll

Free trick-or-treating and pumpkin painting for families
👻👻👻👻👻 💰 $ 🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
📏 9.3 miles from Northbrook
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Last updated: 10/9/2025