Tis the season for ho-ho-horror!!! Team Gregula always enjoys a good falalala scare at Cryptmas time, and there's no better place to get one than at 13th Floor Haunted House Chicago in Schiller Park, IL. The location is pretty easy to get to as it's about a mile down River Road south of the Donald E. Stephens Center (and other fun stuff)…
It's that time of year again....2nd Halloween!!!! Not really (haha) but one of our very favorite conventions will be returning next weekend - Days Of The Dead: Chicago. After a fangtastic weekend back in May where we got to meet awesome celebs like Tom Arnold, Henry Thomas and Doug Jones, Days Of The Dead (DOTD) will be returning for their regular November show. DOTD…
October is in full swing now and Team Gregula has been super busy with fun Halloween activities. One of our favorite Howl-iday traditions is going to Bengtson’s Pumpkin Fest down in Homer Glen, IL. We usually try to make it earlier in the season (less crowds!) but unfortunately I had ended up in the hospital for almost a week earlier this month…
The National Restaurant Association Show has finally come back after three looooong years, and Team Gregula (aka Da Count and myself) was hex-cited to be there for our fifth time! It was so good to be able to once again attend the most comprehensive annual trade show servicing the restaurant, foodservice and hospitality industry on the planet. This cavalcade of deliciousness happened…
Wow! It seems like C2E2 had come faster than usual this year...because it actually has! Yes, mortals and morsels the one and only Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo has come back a mere 8 months after their pre-Xmas edition back in December. This year we FINALLY got what we wished for, a chance to go to C2E2 in weather warm enough not…
Goodbye Wizard World, hello Fan Expo!!! There's things-a-changing in comic conventionland. Our old favorite standby Wizard World Chicago that Team Gregula has been covering since 2007 is no more, but never fear...Fan Expo Chicago is here! Da Count and I were surprised to find out that Fan Expo has a history longer than we thought, actually starting 50 YEARS ago with a…
Medical and recreational marijuana is now legalized in Illinois, and there is still so much to learn about the world of the cannabis industry. This means that there is no better time than now to attend CannaCon Chicago and Team Gregula will be there to celebrate the green! CannaCon Chicago is returning to the Donald E Stephens Convention Center August 26-27, 2022 to…