Celebrating Halloween the Chicago way

One of the favorite holidays for both children and adults, although often for different reasons. Halloween trick-or-treating has ended for the evening, but plenty of Halloween parties are just now getting underway. And across the Chicago area, there was no shortage of ways to celebrate this scariest of holidays. It's called Carrera de los Muertos, or Race of the Dead. A record 9,000 costumed runners racing through the Pilsen neighborhood on this Halloween. The annual 5K race was started in 2007 with just a few hundred people and has now become one of the premier races in the country, with runners coming from over 400 zip codes. Here we go. In the nearby Little Village neighborhood, they're celebrating Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead, all weekend. The Little Village Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a shop locally event this Halloween with scores of stores and restaurants in the business corridor hosting special promotions and events. For the past year or so, we've seen an... A spiral of not too many people walking on 26th Street obviously after Midway Blitz. We want to invite people back into our communities, reinvest into our communities and let them know that if we're not scared, they shouldn't be scared to walk down these streets and support all of our small businesses. On Chicago's far north side, the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce is celebrating Halloween with The Fright on Farragut, featuring creepy games, costumes, and numerology readings. Here we go. Some spooky witches dancing in Washington Park, part of the 7th annual Upside Down Halloween Parade, inspired by the hit TV show Stranger Things. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson taking part in the event, which featured plenty of free candy from some of Chicago's biggest sweets manufacturers. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Enjoy Chicago. And a cherished tradition continues at Lurie Children's Hospital. As team members dress up in costumes for reverse trick-or-treating, handing out candy to all of the young patients staying at the hospital who aren't able to trick-or-treat at home. And finally, Chicago's only Halloween night parade for the past 30 years is expanding into an all-day festival. Haunted Halstead is a free event taking place on five blocks of Halstead between Aldine and Brompton and featuring lots of live music, a DJ and dance stage, food and drink vendors, plus the traditional nighttime Halloween parade.