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Peoria, Illinois
Built in 1891 as the Rock Island Depot, this riverfront building served 32 daily trains at its peak and hosted the "Peoria Rocket"…
Chicago, Illinois
Visitors and paranormal investigators at Robinson Woods report strange lights after dark, flickering lights, whispers, unexplained smells…
Sterling, Illinois
Along the Rock River near Sterling's Dillon Home Museum — an 1858 Italianate house built for Civil War Brigadier General Edward Needles…
Watseka, Illinois
Built in 1868 by Dorothy and Asa Roff, this Italianate house in Watseka is the real setting of the Watseka Wonder: in February 1878,…
Elizabethtown, Illinois
The Rose Hotel stands on the bluff above the Ohio River in Elizabethtown and is among the oldest hotels in Illinois, with its earliest wing…
Grafton, Illinois
The Ruebel Hotel in Grafton, on the Great River Road, was first built in 1879, burned in 1912 and was rebuilt in 1913 with 32 rooms, a…
Lockport, Illinois
Runyon Preserve, once known as Legion Park and home to a popular swimming hole, takes its name from Armstead Runyon, an early Lockport…
Rosemont, Illinois
This 11-story atrium hotel near O'Hare Airport has a somber real history of multiple suicides by jumping from its upper floors, along with…
Gladstone, Illinois
A Knox College student group once brought cameras and surveillance equipment to the cemetery beside South Henderson Church in Gladstone and…
Springfield, Illinois
Built in 1951 at 101 East Lawrence and used until the company relocated to the Hoogland Center for the Arts in 2004, the Springfield…
Lemont, Illinois
Built in 1833, St. James at Sag Bridge is the oldest Catholic church in the Chicago area, and its adjoining cemetery has carried the…
Oak Park, Illinois
St. John's United Methodist Church, an old building with numerous upstairs rooms, has a modest set of ghost stories among its members: an…
Evergreen Park, Illinois
St. Mary's Cemetery sits along the same stretch of railroad tracks that saw a real 1928 mail-train robbery — locally remembered as "The…
Lake Forest, Illinois
In the far back corner of St. Mary's Cemetery, near a creek and along the fence line, sits a grave marked with the name Dameon. Visitors…
Ashmore, Illinois
St. Omer Cemetery in Ashmore holds an unusual family monument — a large stone orb resting on a base of crisscrossed logs, marking the grave…
Wadsworth, Illinois
Old St. Patrick's Cemetery, consecrated in 1849 along Mill Creek Road, is the reputed resting place of a woman locals call Bloody Mary…
Chicago, Illinois
Founded in 1927 on Chicago's South Side, St. Turibius Church is still an active parish today. Local legend holds that the ghost of Father…
Rockford, Illinois
The Tinker Swiss Cottage in Rockford was built between 1865 and 1870 for Robert Hall Tinker, who became Rockford's mayor in 1875, and…
Rockford, Illinois
Twin Sister Woods, an 8-acre wooded area in Rockford's Twin Sister Hills Park, centers its local legend on an old willow tree at the…
Gilberts, Illinois
Tyrell Road Cemetery, with headstones dating to the late 1700s, sits beside an old Irish farmhouse and barn that have both drawn reports of…
Centralia, Illinois
Harriet Annie Marshall, daughter of Dr. Winfield and Eoline Marshall, died in 1890 at age eleven, a few weeks after her birthday, from…
Cicero, Illinois
On the top floor of the Warren Park administration building in Cicero, people working alone after hours have reported footsteps, moaning, a…
Wauconda, Illinois
Wauconda Cemetery sits along what was once the route of the Palatine, Lake Zurich and Wauconda Railroad, a short-lived line that ran from…
Chicago, Illinois
This building at 2601 N. Milwaukee Avenue dates to 1901 and once served as a brothel before Webster's Wine Bar opened here in 1994, now one…