Chicago - Biograph Theater -  the ghost of John Dillinger is seen running in the alley behind this building where he was killed.

Chicago - Holy Family Church - parishioners have seen a white apparition here.

Decatur- Lincoln Theater - A ghost called one-armed red is seen and heard here.

Collinsville - Cahokia Mounds - Ghost of indians and strange shadows and balls of light.

Justice - Resurection Cemetery - The famous ghost of Resurection Mary is said to return here after being dropped off by young men after they picked her up hitch-hiking or at the local ballroom which she was at the night she died .

Midlothian  - Bachelor's Grove Cemetery - This is the sight of a load of supernatural occurances like : a "ghost house " , balls of light , the ghost of a woman and a young child who stand near the shore of a pond where a satanic cult dug up their bones and threw them in the pond . It's an old German cemetery with most of it's headstones dating to early 1900 or even 1800's .

Clarendon Hills - The Country House restaurant -  It is said that a young women with her child came into the bar one night upset and alone.  She became angry when she asked the bartender if she could leave the baby in his care while she went out do some things. He refused, fearing that she was going to abandon her child.  She then stromed out of the restraunt and sped away in her car.  A few miles down the road, the women and her child were found dead in a car accident.  Nobody knows whether she intetionally rammed her car into the tree, or is was just an accident.  Many people, (mainly the employees) have felt or seen the ghost.  She haunts the upstairs storage area where the lockers and dry supplies are.   She has locked people inside the room, flickered lights on and off, and broke many dishes and glasses.

Allerton Park - Allerton Mansion - There have been reports of a mysterious lady in white. She, according to witnesses and old photos of people that use to go there as guest of Mr. Robert Allerton, is a guest that frequently visited there. She has been seen walking along the pond in the back of the mansion, and in "her" room putting on hats and gloves.  She's been heard coming down the stairs and pacing the hall in front of "her" room. This is all I know, I've been to the house many times and I've always noticed a strange feeling in the air. BTW the gardens there are wounderful.

Chicago - Red Lion Bar - Just ask some of the "regulars" of the noises, footsteps and voices they hear there on a regular basis.

Arcola - The depot by the rail road tracks - There is a ghosts seen holding and swinging a latern.

Highland Park - Fort Sheridan - numerous hauntings.  The milatary base ( which is open to the public) is famous for many ghost stories.  First of the base is REALLY old.  MANY cases of people hearing voices in halls or laughing.  Even police written documents of seeing ghosts or other supernatural sights.  Espeacially the water tower story, in which a young lady died in water tower and now she haunts it.  In base there are even many EXORCISED BUILDINGS! Where you can even see bricked off rooms where people that died in, the people who haunted the place, THEY ACTUALLY EXORCISED ROOMS BRICKING THEM OFF!

Evanston - The First Methodist Church of Evanston -  The sanctuary is haunted by the ghost of a man in a black business suit. He has the way of not being involved with anyone in the room that all ghosts have. He walks down the side aisle in the sanctuary, coming out from behind one pillar and walking behind the next, but if you look behind the pillar, no one will be there. There are no doors or windows that he could have gone through, and no one in a black business suit was in the room. It is unknown who he is or why he is haunting the church.

Gurnee - The Gate - It is a clearing where a little school house was.  The house is torn down.  The road into the property is blocked off.  All that stands is a huge black iron gate.   The legend has it that, a crazy man broke into the school house and killed all the children.  After decapitating a few of the children the man walked out to the gate and staked the childrens head on the sharp points of the black iron fence.  The community decided to tear down the house after the tragic act, but The Gate still remains as a memory.  And it's told that you can hear children crying, and see heads on the gate every now and then.  But just being there looking at The Gate is enough.

Woodstock - Woodstock Opera House - ghost sits in same seat in balcony and is never
occupied. it is always left empty for the ghost during any performance. The ghost is seen walking halls and in the upper windows periodically looking out.

Shawneetown - The Old Slave House - a tourist attraction for history buffs and ghost hunters alike, once a slave owner's mansion, built in the early 1800's by a man named Crenshaw, the house is now haunted by ghosts of the former slaves, bound there due to the terrible suffering they had to endure at the hands of this cruel man, as well as the ghost of Mrs. Crenshaw, who haunts the second floor. Apparently, her husband not only abused the slaves, but her as well,   and there is suspicion she may have had an affair with one of the male slaves.

Mendon - Payton's Place -   Many years ago, a farmer, who had gone insane, killed his wife and three kids with an ax and then proceeded to the barn to hang himself.  Everyone that ventures to the spot where the killings took place, sees strange things.  The pathway that the farmer took to the barn, often glows red and sometimes the building that holds the bodies isn't there.  The sound of something running through the corn fields is heard also.   If one ventures to the barn where the farmer hung himself, sometimes they will see a pitchfork (with no one holding it) bailing hay out of the barn.  And sometimes, someone or thing can be seen moving around in the barn.

Bullvalley - The house with no corners -   This house was built in the 1800's.  The family that lived in it all died in the upstairs,  the only part of the house with corners.  The reason for the downstairs and outer parimeter  not having corners was for the purpose of ghosts and spirits to have no place to hide.  Late at night,  in the dark of the upstairs windows,  figures can be seen moving about.  Sounds of steps can also be heard faintly.  On the second floor is the door to nowhere that is up on the house leading to no deck nor any stairway.

Elkhart - Elkhart Cemetary - the cemetary where Governor Ogelsby is buried.  The ghost of his wife visits his tomb.   She will be seen sitting outside his tomb for a few minutes when a group of Indian ghosts come up and chase her off across the bridge leading over the road by the cemetary.

Willow Springs  - Indian Head Park - About a half block into the woods off the side of German Church Road. The old gravel driveway can barely be seen now that most of it is covered with dirt and grass. You find yourself walking up a slight hill and all of a sudden you find yourself standing on top a an old foundation. The house was torn down and all that is left is the foundation. Behind it is the bog. The bog where the two girls were thrown into after they were drugged, raped, and murdered. The Grime sisters were their names.  It is said that the two sisters haunt the wooded area near the house.

Chicago - Jane Addams Hull House -   Now a museum, said to have been the home of a devil baby.  Sightings are still reported, as well as sightings of ghosts and Monks.

Lake Forest - Schweppe Mansion - was unoccupied  for 50 years after the owner committed suicide, while mourning the death of his wife, Laura Schweppe.  The ghost of the family's  servant haunts the mansion's hallways and corridors, while the ghosts of the owners haunt the bedrooms.   One of the windows
of the master bedroom that never needed to be cleaned, while all the others collect dust over the years.

Champaign-Urbana  - The University of Illinois -  The English building is supposed to be haunted.  The story is that it was once a girl's dormitory, and a girl killed herself there.   Supposedly her spirit haunts the building.

Worth  - Holy Sepulcher Cemetery  - a grave sight of a young girl that omits the smell of roses even though there are no rose bushes to be found anywhere near the grave sight.  The grave sight is said to have supernatural powers of healing and occurrences .

Lemont - St. James Sag Cemetery - Also known as "Monk's Castle," an old cemetery where monks, a phantom carriage and Lady in white have been seen.

Normal -  Illinois State University - At an old library in Williams Hall there is said to be the ghost of the original librarian, Angie Milner, haunting the isles.  There have been many occasions where books have been mystriously pushed one by one onto the floor and paople have seen a white object out of the corner of their eye.  The library was scanned and measured and the results were that there was some type of energy or spirit was present.

Chicago-Monks Castle
Suppose to be a religious order that if you try to get onto their land, they will chase you.  One particular story was about a bunch of kids going in at night and sneaking around (around 1983 - 1985), they said they saw something in the woods that had glowing red eyes that started to chase them.  They made it across the gate, as one of the girls sat down on the curb by the street light, a monk grabbed her, and she was never heard from again.

Cicero-Warren Park
Inside the Warren Park administration building on the top floor people have heard (after hours) what sounds like moaning and footsteps and an actual sighting of a misty apparition, plus doors opening and once a glass window being totally shattered.

Quincy-Madison School
In the early 1900's, a house stood in the place where the school is today.  A woman, living alone was murdered, and the killers were never found.  It is told that she was dragged down the large staircase, then stabbed until her screams stopped.  They then hid her body in the closet at the base of the stairs.  The bloodstains were never able to be removed completely.

Crystal Lake
There is a cemetery on Lake Street near the dole mansion this place has been there since the town was first settled. About 5 or 6 yrs. ago a girl committed suicide there. She spread gasoline all over her body and lit herself on fire at the main gate and while in flames she walked to the back of the cemetery. Where she chose her place of death. It was in the far right corner of the yard under a large tree. It has been said that no grass will grow in that area and on certain nights you can see the flames along with a brilliant blue light coming from the cemetery.

Ashley,
A ghost inhabits the local, abandoned candy factory on the West Side of the railroad tracks.  She is said to have been killed during a normal day at work.  The roof has caved in and covered the spot where she was supposedly killed.  When circled, it is possible to see a face or silhouette of the woman in a doorway of window.  At night it is also possible to hear her cries just before she died.

Charles Munger Road-Wayne St.
A haunted road were many car lights have been seen and then disappeared. Also old insane asylum which is haunted.

Forest Park- Jewish Waldheim Cemetery-
A beautiful young spirit with brunette hair is said to hang out at the cemetery gates and at times hitch rides to 'Melody Mills Ballroom' just down the street

Olney-Mt.Pleasant Cemetery-
An old church stands at the front of the cemetery. This church is said to be haunted. When the front door is knocked on sounds are heard within the church, sometimes choirs, footsteps and strange lights. On some nights funeral sessions are seen at the church. Although no funerals have taken place there since the 50's.

Forest Park-Woodlawn Cemetery-
In 1918 a train wreck took the lives of the members of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. People report hearing sounds of wild animals coming from the cemetery

Chicago-The Dome Room-
 A nightclub that is very haunted.  The building that it occupies once housed a morgue with hundreds of dead bodies.  It was also a sewing house that burned in the Great Chicago Fire and claimed many women's lives.  Phenomenon occurs there nightly. There have been many eyewitnesses to ghosts and many other things.

Lockport- Canal St. Junkyard-
A ghost of a little girl can be seen in the junkyard.

Chicago- Mt Carmel-
Spirit of Julia Buccola Petta is said to wander the cemetery grounds. On one occasion when a young boy was left behind in the cemetery, the family saw the boy take the hand of a lady in a white gown upon their return to retrieve the boy. When they got closer the lady disappeared.

Rosiclare - Pleasanthill's Cemetary-
At night, if you go all the way back to the small creek, you here bells, and the sound of a gate opening and closing.  There is a spirit there that haunts the cemetery more than others.  The name of the spirit is Ahab Gullet.  His tombstone reads: "Friends beware as you pass by, as you are now so once was I.  As I am you soon shall be, prepare for death and follow me."  If you read this aloud, spirits will appear before you.

St.Charles-On Prairie St.-
At night you can see bright white figure standing on a curb looking for someone. About five minutes later a shadowy car pulls up and they both vanish.

Charleston-Eastern Illinois University-
Pemberton hall is said to be haunted by a woman who was tragically murdered by the janitor in the early 1900's. It is said that the ghost lives on the abandoned fourth floor.

Harpo Studios, formerly the Chicago armory-
Was the sight of a makeshift morgue after the Easton tragedy.  There were 1,500 people that died in the incident, and they're bodies brought to the armory for identification.  Numerous stories of the armory, now Harpo Studios, being haunted.

Chicago- Archer Woods Cemetery-
A driverless old-fashioned hearse drawn by a team of mad horses can sometimes be seen coming out of the woods.

Chicago-The Dome Room-
Sci-Fi Channel's Sightings actually aired this location as being "the most haunted hot spot in America" about two months ago.  The Dome Room is a gothic after hours dance club that is an annex of the Excalibur club in downtown Chicago.  It once served as a library that burned to the ground in the Great Chicago Fire. Many lives were claimed in that historical fire.  It also served as a morgue for hundreds of dead bodies that were the result of large ship accident. A man with red hair in a tuxedo is often seen in the central bar area of the club.  There is also the spirit of a little girl that is often seen upstairs.  Candles light by themselves, objects move, and apparitions are seen.

Highland- House of Plenty Restaurant-
People have claimed to hear strange noises, and seen a weird light from the basement.

Zion Cemetery-
A bit of blue light giving a silhouette of gravestone once u see it and go to it, it fades out but u can spot it from a distance and on nights of no moon u can see the light in a church just down the road, the folk tale is that a phantom car is seen, it is on Fulton county back road called Babylon and it is off of county highway 17 going east.

Colona-Kauzlarich House-
There had been shadows in the halls and things turning on and off without being touched.

Charleston-Pemberton Hall-
Pemberton Hall is an all girls dormitory, where a young college girl was allegedly brutally murdered, before winter break, by a psychotic janitor. Clocks turn back in time, voices are heard in the halls and doors mysteriously lock after the young girls enter. The murder supposedly took place on the fourth floor, which is now boarded up.

Bartonville- State Hospital-
They say the residents of the Bartonville State Hospital haunt the grounds and can be seen at various times.

Springfield- Theatre Center-
Joe supposedly haunts the theatre! He was one of the best actors there one night when he was coming out of the building he was pulled be hind an alley and was murdered! He has haunted the theatre ever since.

Bartonville-
The old Illinois State hospital is said to be haunted.  Investigators report balls of light and sounds.

Prairie du Rocher-Fort de Chartes-
Between 11 pm and midnight, on every 4th of July that falls on a Friday, a phantom funeral procession forms.  There are about 40 wagons and additional riders on horseback who escort a casket lying on a wagon. This was first witnessed in 1889.  Next chance--2003!

Belleville-
The ghost tracks are the alleged resting place of a young boy killed by a train on the tracks.  It is said that if you roll over the tracks and stop just after you cross them and put your car in neutral, the boy will push the car back over the tracks, up a hill, to save you from his fate.  If you put baby powder on your bumper, after he pushes you, you can see his fingerprints.

Havana-Lawford Theater-
Cold chills have been felt behind the curtains before opening night performances.  It is said that this is the presence of past actors coming back to watch a play one more time.  Also, if you take a trip alone to the basement you might see an apparition of a stage manager disappear before your eyes!!!!!!!

Elgin-Elgin Psychiatric Hospital Cemetery-
Documentation of patients being tortured in the turn of the century era before science understood insanity. They then were buried five in a grave with the name of the body on top marking that grave. All kinds of supernatural activity here ranging from orbs to apparitions

Lake Zurich/Barrington - Cuba Road-
Cuba road is a long, old road that spreads from Buffalo Grove through Lake Zurich and into Barrington.  Late at night there have been many people to pass an old, abandoned house on the far east end of Cuba and see a congregation of people standing around a large white flame in the field near the house, then suddenly the flame disappears in a flash of white light and all of the people seen so clearly standing around the white flame have disappeared.

Glenview-The Grove-
In the Kennicot house, it has been reported that the headless body of a woman appears to be walking down the front staircase.  She is dressed in the style of the 1800's. The same period as when the family lived in the house.  A light...as if from an oil lamp...is seen moving about the house.  When police have gone to investigate, there is no one there and no sign of forced entry. Although, it was on one such call that the police saw the headless woman.

Pemberton Hall at Eastern Illinois University
A woman was raped and killed in the dorm a long time ago.  She is said to haunt the hall ever since. Wet footprints on the floor or bloody footprints.  The floor where she was killed is closed off but mysterious music still plays from a piano she once played on.

Decateur - Milliken University -
There are a number of ghosts who hang around the 150 year old campus.  In the main theater, there is a ghost called "Track girl" for whom the performers leave candy before a show to ensure that all things will be well.

Dillinger was only 5'-7" and every inch was mean. "The most ruthless butcher of human beings in all the jungles of gangland," opined one newspaper in the obituary. Dillinger indignantly denied such aspersions on his character. "I don't smoke very much," he once said, "and I drink very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks." To many Depression-era observers he was someone to root for, as he continually outwitted police and broke out of their jails. They were willing to overlook the sixteen killings credited to his gang of bank robbers.

There is a museum dedicated to him (see Nashville, Indiana) near his hometown. A plaque attached to the wall of the Biograph, which is still in use as a movie theater, describes how he met his end in Chicago.

The Owen Lovejoy House is located in Princeton, Illinois on East Peru Street, near the corner of 6th Street. It is open to the public.

The house is equally significant for its role in the Underground Railroad. Hossack was a strong opponent to slavery and hid as many as 13 fleeing slaves in this house until they could safely reach the next station. These escaped slaves were in constant danger of discovery and being returned to their owners, while Hossack and others in Illinois, if caught, faced greater jeopardy than abolitionists in other states. By participating in the Underground Railroad, Hossack was violating not only the Federal Fugitive Slave Act, but also the infamous Illinois "Black Law," which forbade most African Americans from living within the State. In 1860, Hossack was one of several Ottawans charged and convicted in Federal Court in Chicago for violating the Fugitive Slave Law. The famous case involved Jim Gray, a slave who had reached Ottawa after fleeing slavery in a Southern state. During the trial Gray was abducted from the Ottawa courtroom and helped to freedom in Canada.

The John Hossack House is located at 210 W. Prospect St. in Ottawa, Illinois. It is a private residence and not open to the public.