Historic Haunted Buildings in Illinois

Historic civic, commercial, and institutional buildings with reported ghost stories and verifiable local history.

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Editorial basis: cards use each listing's short description and are ordered by haunting level, then views. Approved community reports are counted separately.

Historic Haunted Buildings

McPike Mansion

Alton, IL

A ruined 1869 Italianate mansion in Alton, Illinois — a town that calls itself one of America's most haunted — famous from national television and decades of investigations. The McPike Mansion's owners run tours and campouts while restoring it, and its cellar is the heart of the stories.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

Historic Haunted Buildings

George Stickney House

Bull Valley, IL

A curious 1840s-60s farmhouse in Bull Valley, Illinois, built by spiritualists George and Sylvia Stickney with rounded corners — legend says to deny spirits a hiding place. Now the village hall and police station, the Stickney House wears its seance-room history and gentle hauntings famously.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

Historic Haunted Buildings

Former Chicago Historical Society Building

Chicago, IL

A Romanesque granite fortress of 1892 on Dearborn Street, built for the Chicago Historical Society and later famous as a nightclub complex. Chicago telling has long called the building haunted — figures on its grand stair, glasses flying in its club years and a history reaching back past the Great Fire.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

Historic Haunted Buildings

English Building

Urbana, IL

The English Building on the Illinois quad at Urbana carries the university's oldest telling: from its women's-dormitory decades comes the story of a student's sorrow and a presence — footsteps, cold and a figure — that generations have placed in its halls.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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About historic haunted buildings in Illinois

Illinois's historic haunted buildings are compiled from local history, published folklore and visitor reports. Many are open to the public, and several offer tours or overnight stays.

Stories are recorded as accounts rather than established fact. Browse by city above, or open the full map to explore everything near you.