Happy VAMPentine’s Day 2024! The creators at Thirteenth Floor Entertainment Group are back again to turn the romantic holiday into a frightfully fun and interactive hex-perience. Love Bites: A Valentine’s Haunted House returns to Schiller Park on Friday, February 16 through Sunday, February 18. Skip the same ol' boring dates this V-Day to go on a more *ahem* stimulating scary soiree cleverly crafted…
Cider Summit Chicago has once again returned to Navy Pier's AON Grand Ballroom for their 10th annual festival on Saturday February 3rd, and Team Gregula had a fangtastic time sampling some crisp ciders and other luscious libations. This year was different than in past years in that there was only one general admission session (2PM-6PM) instead of the usual two (12PM-3PM &…
Cider Summit returns to Chicago for their 10th annual festival vith a brand new schedule! The region’s largest cider festival vill be featuring approximately 150 ciders, cider cocktails, and fruit spirits. Team Gregula is hex-cited to be sampling various ciders again in order to give our revealing recommendations to all our riveted readers. Cider Summit Chicago is happening on Saturday, February 3,…
Ahoy, Macabre Mateys! The first engaging event of the new year that Team Gregula vill cover as the morbid media is the 2024 Discover Boating Chicago Boat Show. Happening January 10-14, 2024 at McCormick Place South. Five days of recreational reveling for the entire fang-mily. Showgoers get the opportunity to view, board, and shop over 600 boats. Featuring the top retailers in the boat and…
Vell, here it is! Our annual Year in Review. This vas a vay better and more satisfying year for Team Gregula. Ve made nearly a full comeback vith reviewing events again since losing our previous ChicagoNow entertainment blog of 10 years back in August 2022. Team Gregula officially added a new author that is also our regular photographer at most major events…
Tis the season to get your jollies! But if that means getting the fa-la-la-la-las scared out of you, there is no better place to celebrate the Horror-Days than at 13th Floor Haunted House Chicago in Schiller Park, IL. Just a hop, a skip and a jump down River Road south of the Donald E. Stephens Center in Rosemont (the entertainment capital of…
Krampus has returned for 2023! This December 13th Floor Haunted House Chicago vill once again be transformed into a Christmas vonderland, although it von’t be all glitter and snowflakes. Keep your eyes peeled and find all of your favorite holiday traditions, but this time full of jolly jeer. You better vatch out. You better not cry. Horrifying Christmas characters vill haunt all…
Days of the Dead this year took place from November 17 to 19, 2023, three days of scary goodness! Days of the Dead was the first geeky convention to operate in the midst of the pandemic, albeit in a more cautious, reduced format. Days of the Dead this year was packed with fans–conventioneers came in droves to the show this time since…
Hell-O, all! Team Gregula is thrilled to announce that we will be covering the very first World Oddities Expo in Chicago. Da Count, Deadly Dex and I (the one and only La Contessa aka Lily Gregula) are looking forward to do some Horror-Day shopping this weekend!!! World Oddities Expo: Chicago 2023 will be taking place this Saturday (December 2nd) at the Donald…
Soon Thanksgiving will be just a memory with full bellies and happy hearts. So... what's there to do after a long tryptophan nap? Well, if you're a Doctor Who fan, the annual Chicago TARDIS convention will be taking place this weekend (November 24-26) in Lombard, Illinois with lots of fangtastic events and celebrities galore! Team Gregula is hex-cited to be covering our…