For over 200 years, Chicago has endured the Great Fire, Al Capone, Prohibition, Violent Riots, and Shipwrecks. These events led to Chicago’s mysterious hauntings, often experienced by locals – and even our guests. The third most populous city in the nation has become a hotbed for ghostly encounters.
Join us for a ghost tour with stories and visits to sites of old asylums, cults, and haunted bars next to dark alleys that harbor the spirits of gangsters and bootleggers. Whatever the weather, join Windy City Ghosts to walk in the footsteps of Chi Town’s Ghosts. We’ll give you a chill that cuts to the bone.
The Experiences You've Heard About
Grant Chessman
Chicago has a rich ghost history and I learned a lot. The tour was fun and just the right length. Special thanks to our guide, Carrie, who was amazing...
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Amy
Had a great time. Guide was fun and knowledgeable about the area
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Maggie Rodgers
Just finished a ghost tour with Elliot! This was the perfect thing to do for spooky season! Many of the places we visited I have been to before howeve...
Otherworldly activity in the Windy City is unlike any other in the nation. Years of disaster have wasted away the living, leaving the world of the dead to roam freely. Ghastly apparitions walk across the burned wreckage of the city’s past, shocking and entrancing all who venture into their path.
Windy City Ghosts brings you to the most haunted locations in Chicago on a nightly excursion full of supernatural terror. Discover the haunting stories that gave the city its horrid reputation amongst the world of the living and the dead.
Red Lion Pub
The Red Lion Pub is one of the oldest bars in the US and one of the most haunted. The building, erected in 1882, has seen many historical events play out inside it and around its neighborhood. One top of that, famous mobsters such as Al Capone and many others, were seen here as commonly as the handful of ghosts that now allegedly frequent this historic pub.
Biograph Theater
One of the oldest movie theaters in Chicago, the Biograph Theater is particularly well-known for the mobster activity and tragic events that occurred there back in the day. Most famously, bank robber John Dillinger was shot here in 1934, ironically after watching a gangster film. It’s attracted ghosts, mobsters, and historians alike ever since.
Golden Dagger
Golden Dagger, established initially as Tonic Room in the early 2000s, is speculated to have been a meeting place for the Order of the Golden Dawn. Today, the basement contains entities of unspeakable horror. Many have witnessed a bloodied woman who is believed to have been a sacrifice to the “old gods.” Her presence causes people to seize up in a bone-chilling cold while upstairs, foggy apparitions wander the bar.
What to Expect on Your Chicago Ghost Tour
Join us for a Chicago ghost tour full of stories and visits to the sites of old asylums, cults, and haunted bars waiting next to dark alleys that harbor the spirits of gangsters and bootleggers. whatever the weather, join Windy City Ghosts to walk in the footsteps of Chi Town’s Ghosts. We’ll give you a chill that cuts to the bone.
The second city of America has drawn the blood of almost as many characters as New York or Los Angeles. It’s the gateway to the Midwest and a hub of industry that rivals any in the world. The lakes, rivers, and railroads drew in all those seeking their fortune and a new life. But many lives ended here, some in spectacular fashion, as quickly as they began.
All the stops on the Windy City Ghosts itinerary give you a deep look into Chicago’s dark past and shady characters. Hear stories from the Second City that you won’t find in the history books. Bring different periods of the history of the City by The Lake to life in a way that will stick in your memory. Discover tales of human suffering, bad luck, and tragedy full of twists and turns that make them memorable beyond belief.
Discover the Horrors That Haunt Chicago
Learn about the satanic rituals that once perpetuated the Tonic Room Bar and the ghosts that mysterious occultists left behind.
Visit the infamous Lincoln Park, one of Chicago’s many parks, surrounded by the spirits of the city’s violin and destructive past.
Discover where some of Chicago’s most notorious gangsters once drank, dined, and demolished their way through history.
Check out the many locations in the Windy City where infamous serial killers once claimed life upon life without any remorse.
Take a walk past the site of one of the most heinous asylums in American history, where restless and tortured souls still wander.
Why You Should Book Your Chicago Ghost Tour Tonight!
Entertaining and full of history – and gore!
Our tour offers thrilling supernatural insight into the dark side of the city. We also cover a wide array of educational and historical details of the city that you will not learn anywhere else!
Chicago has a fascinating history, springing from the trade of fur traders, missionaries, and business people who saw its potential to control access to the Mississippi basin and the overland routes via rail to the whole Mid-West. Many of the waves of new Americans that came from Europe, Scandinavia, and further afield were drawn to this unionized town’s high wages.
The unions and the powerful ward system of politics meant Chicago was a power base for politicians of the day, and where power flows, blood surely follows. Corruption and murder were the lingua franca of the streets for decades, and all every deal gone wrong left a ghost behind.
Find out which gangsters, bootleggers, politicians, and jazz singers still haunt the windy shores of Lake Michigan today.
Knowledgeable Chicago tour guides
When you take a tour with Windy City Ghosts, you will be in the hands of professional and passionate guides, as well as being locals and incredibly knowledgeable about local culture and stories of hauntings they are courteous and adaptable.
If you bring the family you will still have children that will sleep tonight, but everyone will be remembering the stories for years to come! The tour is fully accessible and suitable for everyone. Bring a date and have stories to share for decades, if it works out!
Only the finest stories of hauntings and real history
All the stops on the Windy City ghost itinerary give you a deep look into Chicago’s dark past and shady characters. You’ll hear stories from the Second City that you won’t find in the history books, but that will bring different periods of the history of the City by The Lake to life, in a way that will stick in your memory like nothing from school. Hear tales of human suffering, bad luck, and tragedy with twists and turns that make them memorable beyond belief.
We research eyewitness accounts of the hauntings, like the ghost of a murdered jogger in Oz Park, who looks real but speaks with a distinctive tinny and faraway sound, eternally looking for a safe way out of the park to avoid her horrible fate.
Fun and frightening all in one
All the reviews talk of how fun the tour is. Windy City Ghosts is not like seeing a horror movie at the cinema (although with the extended tour it is a little shorter than the average movie); the fear creeps up on you and is suggested, not explicit.
Chicago at night is an atmospheric experience. The streets have a special light, and it does not take much to put you in a supernatural frame of mind. Whether you take the standard tour or extend dive deeper into the haunted history of Chicago with the extended tour, we know you will have fun, learn something, and have some truly terrifying tales to tell your family and friends when you get home, even if your home is already in Chicago.
Join us for a whirlwind fun and frightening wander through the terrible tales of the Windy City Ghosts.
Tour Meeting Location: 100 W Ontario St, Chicago IL 60654
Tour Times: 11:00 AM
Tour Length: 1 Hour
Ghost tours are held nightly, rain or shine!
