Mayor Daley's Halloween Ball
Crowd: Movers and shakers sharpening their fangs
Why You're
Going: To practice your schmoozing skills in disguise (but keep the business cards
ready for when you glad-hand Da Mayor).
Masquer-Aid
Chicago's Top Five Halloween Parties
The most frightening part about Halloween: wasting one of the year's best occasions at the wrong party.We've scared up a few fetes worth your attendance. (Costume is still on you.)
Room 21 Flapper's Ball
Crowd: Girls in fringed frocks, guys in their bootlegger best
Why You're
Going: Capone's onetime stronghold makes the perfect hideaway from the town's Eliot
Ness-types. Savor retro cocktails, a jazz band and buttermilk fried chicken worth doing time for.
Crimson Lounge Debonair Monster's Ball
Crowd: No corpse brides here: Expect costumes calculated to enhance the
good looks of this River North club's clientele.
Why You're
Going: Your Don Draper getup should win best costume, and there'll be lots of sexy
Sam-and-Lindsay doppelgangers for your amusement.
Lumen's Chicago Halloween Thriller
Crowd: Well-fed scenesters dancing off their pork-belly dinner from
Publican next door
Why You're
Going: A live dance performance mixing Rihanna's "Disturbia" with a little
"Thriller" should be frighteningly entertaining.
Spooky Kabooki at SushiSamba Rio
Crowd: Ghost-faced ladies and sushi samurai
Why You're
Going: Kabuki's always held a fascination for you, so the entertainment should be
as explosive as the Dracula Dessert (Coca-Cola gelee, vanilla bean ice cream and Pop Rocks).
