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Worth, Illinois
At Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, 6001 W. 111th Street in Worth, pilgrims still visit the grave of Mary Alice Quinn, known locally as Chicago's…
St. Charles, Illinois
Hotel Baker opened to the public on June 2, 1928, with rooms starting at $2.50 a night. Its sixth floor, originally the chambermaids'…
Chicago, Illinois
House of Blues Chicago opened in 1996 within the Marina City complex, in a space that had previously operated as the Marina Cinemas triplex…
Chicago, Illinois
In the spring of 1913, word spread through Chicago's immigrant neighborhoods that Hull House, Jane Addams's famous settlement house, was…
Forest Park, Illinois
Jewish Waldheim Cemetery, established in 1870 and home to over 250 sections representing Chicago-area Jewish families, synagogues, and…
Chester, Illinois
Kaskaskia was Illinois's first capital, settled in 1703 and capital of the territory and then the state until 1820, when the seat moved to…
La Salle, Illinois
Opened in 1915 and designed by the noted Chicago firm Marshall and Fox, the six-story Kaskaskia Hotel once hosted guests including Amelia…
Galesburg, Illinois
In March 1988, Knox College freshman Andrea Racibozynski was beaten to death with a brick in a stairwell of Seymour Hall, a men's…
Aurora, Illinois
Built in 1928 on Stolp Island, the 22-story Leland Tower was once the tallest building in Illinois outside Chicago and operated for decades…
Godfrey, Illinois
Lewis and Clark Community College sits on the former grounds of Monticello College, founded in 1835 as Monticello Seminary — the oldest…
Decatur, Illinois
Built in 1916 on the site of the Arcade Hotel, which had burned to the ground the year before, this Decatur theater has drawn ghost reports…
Belleville, Illinois
Author Troy Taylor has named the Lincoln Theatre one of the ten most haunted places in America. Once a leading stop on the vaudeville…
Petersburg, Illinois
This reconstructed 1830s village two miles south of Petersburg re-creates the town where a young Abraham Lincoln lived from 1831 to 1837,…
Springfield, Illinois
Abraham Lincoln's body arrived in Springfield for burial on May 3, 1865, and ghost sightings around his tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery have…
Chicago, Illinois
The Skyscraper Building opened in 1930 as part of Mundelein College, built by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the…
Marshall, Illinois
Mackey Cemetery, in rural Clark County near Marshall, gets its nickname from a real, gruesome case: a caretaker who killed his family with…
Macomb, Illinois
This building at 201 North Randolph Street opened in 1926-27 as the Lamoine Hotel, Macomb's first large modern hotel, built to serve the…
Spring Valley, Illinois
The Massock Mausoleum sits in Spring Valley's Lithuanian Liberty Cemetery, established in 1914, where three members of the Massock family —…
Oak Brook, Illinois
Coal magnate Francis Stuyvesant Peabody built this Tudor Gothic mansion between 1919 and 1922, naming the estate Mayslake after his late…
Lebanon, Illinois
The Alumni House at McKendree University, founded in 1828 as Illinois's oldest college, carries a somber history: an elderly woman died…
Alton, Illinois
At McPike Mansion, the owners believe about a dozen spirits remain, among them McPike's mother Lydia and his first wife Mary, with visitors…
New Lenox, Illinois
A 406-acre section of Messenger Woods was designated an Illinois Nature Preserve in 1994 and 1999, protecting a mix of forest, prairie,…
Joliet, Illinois
At Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, visitors to the surviving arsenal buildings and grounds report the sound of cars that can't be seen…
Decatur, Illinois
Millikin University's Albert Taylor Theatre is home to "Rail Girl," a ghost first reported by a theater student in 1998 as a small girl of…