Fall festival · Chicago · All ages
Boo! at the Zoo at Brookfield Zoo Chicago
Brookfield, IL · 9 miles out
Fall festival · Chicago
Boo! at the Zoo at Brookfield Zoo Chicago
8400 31st Street, Brookfield, IL 60513
Through Oct 25, 2026; weekdays 10am-5pm, weekends 10am-6pm (full trick-or-treating Oct 24-25, 11am-5pm)
Included with zoo admission; free for members
All ages
The event
Brookfield Zoo's month-long family Halloween. Every day there's trick-or-treating at select shops and a spooky safari scavenger hunt. On weekends it adds zoowide trick-or-treating, costume parades, character meet-and-greets, pumpkin enrichment for the animals, a dinosaur show and free Halloween inflatables for kids 3-10. This year's theme brings back the zoo's roaming dinosaurs.
- When
- Through Oct 25, 2026; weekdays 10am-5pm, weekends 10am-6pm (full trick-or-treating Oct 24-25, 11am-5pm)
- Price
- Included with zoo admission; free for members
- Place
- 8400 31st Street, Brookfield, IL 60513
- Age
- All ages
- Usual season
- Usually the fall weekends, harvest through early November.
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