Haunted things to do in Chicago

Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Chicago? These 5 are the genuinely strange ones — Congress Plaza Hotel, Couch Tomb, Lincoln Park, Graceland Cemetery and Arboretum and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Chicago they'd never find on their own.

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Congress Plaza Hotel Opened in 1893 as the Auditorium Annex to house World's Columbian Exposition visitors, this 14-story Michigan… South Loop
Couch Tomb, Lincoln Park This fifty-ton limestone mausoleum is the last above-ground trace of Lincoln Park's origins as a city cemeter… Lincoln Park
Graceland Cemetery and Arboretum Founded in 1860, Graceland is the resting place of Chicago titans and the source of two of the city's most fa… Uptown
Resurrection Cemetery (Resurrection Mary) The front gates of this sprawling Catholic cemetery are ground zero for Resurrection Mary, Chicago's most fam… Justice
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery Founded around 1840 and now an abandoned, overgrown burial ground enclosed by the Rubio Woods forest preserve… Midlothian (Bremen Township)