All Hallows Eve and Day of the Dead lead the way this weekend, with events ranging from this year’s Día de Muertos exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art to themed concerts by Deadmau5 and UChicago’s orchestra. Plus we’re picking two haunted houses from our annual guide. Or if you’d rather skip the rest of scare season, it’s Sondheim to the rescue. The touring Broadway production of the musical by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth arrives in Chicago early next week.
Springingsguth Road, Schaumburg; entrance into the carnival is free, parking is $5 and tickets for attractions are extra, more information at wintrustfield.com The Old Joliet Haunted Prison is open daily through Halloween night, then Nov. 3-4. For a haunted house, you couldn’t ask for a better venue than the imposing, gothic towers and high stone walls of the former Joliet Correctional Center, built some 160 years ago.