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Haunted Chicago Booze & Boos Pub Crawl
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1–2 Hours
Large group (21-50)
English
Overview
Why this night is worth your time
A guide in 1920s dress leads this one, which turns out to be exactly the right register for it. You cover about a mile through Lincoln Park, stopping at three bars while the stories run to old burial grounds and the spirits that stuck around the neighborhood. It is a real crawl with real history attached, not a costume gimmick: drinks between the scares, scares between the drinks, across two easy hours.
The ticket covers the costumed guide, the three bar stops and the full walking route, so the structure and the storytelling are sorted while you focus on keeping up. The value is in the pairing, a proper pub crawl welded to genuine local ghost history, with a guide whose costume actually fits the era being described. Drinks themselves are on you, so plan for a round at each of the three stops.
It suits groups, couples and social solo travelers who want their history with a beer in hand, and the mood is fun over frightening. Expect a sociable Lincoln Park crowd and a walkable mile between bars. Bring ID, wear shoes you can cover ground in, and a light layer for the lakefront chill after dark.
Places & context
Places this tour is built around
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Glascott's Groggery
A Lincoln Park institution since 1937, all dark wood and Irish clutter — the kind of old saloon where the barflies swear a regular or two never quite left.
Lincoln Park
The leafy neighborhood built over the city's old graveyard, where not every body was moved before the mansions rose — a fashionable address with a buried past.
Biograph Theatre
The old movie palace where John Dillinger watched his last picture show before the G-men caught him; some say the 'Lady in Red' still lingers by the marquee.
Lilly's
A cosy, dim Lincoln Park bar with a reputation for the odd unexplained chill — a warm stop on a cold crawl through the neighborhood's haunted corners.
Hook and Ladder
A firehouse-themed tavern where the beer flows under old brass and red lanterns, named for the ladder companies that once raced these very streets.
Oz Park
The green named for L. Frank Baum, who dreamed up Oz while living nearby; the Tin Man and Cowardly Lion stand in bronze where the shadows lengthen after dark.
King of Cups
A tarot-themed cocktail den of velvet and candlelight, where the drinks arrive with a wink of the occult and the fortunes told are never quite reassuring.
The Red Lion Pub
Chicago's most famously haunted pub, an English-style tavern where staff and drinkers alike have reported the ghost of a woman on the stairs for decades.
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Included
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- Costumed guide; 3 bar stops; walking route.
- Drinks; food.
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