Chicago Fall Bucket List

It’s officially Fall, and it’s time to enjoy all that comes with it; warm sweaters, bonfires, changing leaves, pumpkins, apple cider, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and more! Below you’ll find 30 events and home activities to check off your bucket list this season:

1. Fall Fest at Lincoln Park Zoo
2. Connect South Shore – Arts Festival
3. Plan a Scary Movie Night
4. Bonfire and smores with friends and family
5. Boo! at the Zoo – Brookfield
6. Paint pumpkins
7. Jack’s Pumpkin Pop Up
8. UniverSoul Circus in Washington Park
9. 3rd Annual UPSIDE DOWN Halloween Parade
10. Cookies and Hot Chocolate night
11. Decorate for Halloween
12. Austober Fest in Austin
13. Eat a caramel apple – it’s fall, so it’s only fitting!
14. Go on a nature walk and view the beautiful changing leaves
15. Pier Pumpkin Light at Navy Pier
16. Go apple picking
17. Tell ghost stories
18. Dia de los Muertos Sugar Skull Workshop – Marquette Park
19. Go trick-or-treating
20. Carve a pumpkin
21. Host a Friendsgiving
22. Trunk Or Treat hosted by the 15th District
23. Visit a pumpkin patch
24. Spend a night in with your favorite fall candle lit
25. Safe Halloween 2022 in Park Forest
26. Visit a Haunted House
27. It Takes A Village Family of Schools Pumpkin Patch!
28. Campfire Horrors – Chatham
29. Community Bonfire – Pullman
30. Rollin' Rec – Halloweek On the Block – Auburn Gresham