Illinois’ trick-or-treating rules: What to know

By Jerry Barmore

10/27/2025

Halloween is when the masks go on and candy fills the bag. Cities and towns regulating Halloween with trick-or-treating rules do so for safety, so you should check your local Halloween laws.

Curfews, fines: Beware Illinois communities’ trick-or-treat laws

By Jerry Barmore

10/29/2024

Some Illinois communities see regulating any mischief on Halloween as a real treat. One town fines trick-or-treaters up to $750 if they don’t know the Halloween laws.

Kit Kat, Twix are cheaper in Illinois because of tricky tax on treats

By Jerry Barmore

10/24/2024

Halloween shoppers can stay clear of Illinois’ spooky candy tax if they know the right candy to buy.

TAGS: Halloween

Illinois city outlaws trick-or-treating beyond age 12

By Dylan Sharkey

10/24/2023

Some Illinois communities see regulating any mischief on Halloween as a real treat. Belleville prohibits anyone older than 12 from trick-or-treating, with fines up to $1,000.

Here’s a trick to save taxes on soaring Halloween candy prices

By Patrick Andriesen

10/26/2022

Halloween shoppers can expect to spend 13% more on treats this October than last season, marking the largest-ever single-year jump in candy prices. Illinois’ tax system this year lets treaters save some dough by picking candy with flour.

Illinois imposes tricky taxes on Halloween treats

By Dylan Sharkey

10/25/2021

Taxes are different on different types of candy in Illinois, with some brands taxed six times more than others. Just because you can eat it, doesn’t mean Illinois’ tax policy sees it as food.

TAGS: Halloween, Illinois, taxes

Tricky Halloween rules are no treat in Illinois cities

By Dylan Sharkey

10/25/2021

Put on a costume, grab a bag and get free treats? It’s not so simple in Illinois, where cities’ Halloween rules restrict the simple fun.

TAGS: COVID-19, Halloween, Illinois

Illinois becomes only state to ban haunted houses

10/03/2020

Other states warned residents about small spaces inside haunted houses creating a risk for spreading COVID-19, but Illinois is all alone in outlawing them.

TAGS: executive order, haunted house, JB Pritzker

Halloween rules on times, ages and dark houses await Illinois trick-or-treaters

10/28/2019

Oak Park is creating specific trick-or-treating hours this Halloween. Other municipalities in Illinois have even scarier Halloween rules.

These Illinois Halloween laws might scare you

By Austin Berg

10/18/2018

Scraping through a few hundred municipal codes in Illinois didn’t turn up any trick-or-treat ordinances allowing for jail time. But fines associated with age limits, curfews, masks and more were aplenty.

TAGS: Belleville, criminal justice reform, Decatur, overcriminalization

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Illinois’ trick-or-treating rules: What to know

Curfews, fines: Beware Illinois communities’ trick-or-treat laws

Kit Kat, Twix are cheaper in Illinois because of tricky tax on treats

Illinois city outlaws trick-or-treating beyond age 12

Here’s a trick to save taxes on soaring Halloween candy prices

Illinois imposes tricky taxes on Halloween treats

Tricky Halloween rules are no treat in Illinois cities

Illinois becomes only state to ban haunted houses

Halloween rules on times, ages and dark houses await Illinois trick-or-treaters

These Illinois Halloween laws might scare you

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