Historic haunted places in Chicago, IL. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
FBI agents gunned down bank robber John Dillinger outside the Biograph in July 1934 after he watched a film there. His ghost is said to linger in the alley next to the 1914 theater…
Open (operating hotel; lobby bar open to the public).
Opened in 1893 for World's Columbian Exposition visitors, the hotel has piled up more ghost lore than any other Chicago building. Tales include a phantom bride on the upper floors,…
Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery in Chicago's Uptown community area, established in 1860. Its main entrance is at Clark Street and Irving Park Road. Its 121 a…
Public alley; site now the James M. Nederlander Theatre.
In the 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire, 602 people died during a holiday matinee, many of them in the narrow alley behind the building while trying to escape. That alley, Couch Place, b…
Open (museum; October night ghost tours, ages 16+).
Hull-House is tied to the early-1900s 'Devil Baby' rumor, which once drew crowds to its door hoping to glimpse a demon child supposedly kept inside. A Lady in White is also said to…
Rosehill Cemetery on Chicago's North Side covers 350 acres, making it the city's largest cemetery and its first private one. William W. Boyington designed its castellated Gothic en…
The Drake's best-known legend is the Lady in Red, said to have leapt from an upper window after finding her husband with another woman at a New Year's Eve party. Guests and staff d…