{"id":198450,"date":"2025-09-04T02:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/198450\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T02:52:10","slug":"jack-o-lantern-world-announces-second-location-in-chicago-area-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/198450\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack O\u2019 Lantern World announces second location in Chicago area \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Famous for housing the world&#8217;s largest collection of real pumpkin jack-o&#8217;-lanterns weighing over 1,000 pounds, Jack O&#8217; Lantern World is opening a second location in suburban Chicago, the company announced Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to its traditional location in Lake Zurich, located at 215 South Rand Road in Paulus Park, Jack O&#8217; Lantern world will have a second location in Lemont this fall. <\/p>\n<p>The new location, at 227 Heritage Quarries Drive in The Forge Lemont Quarries, will feature all the classic fall festivities and more. <\/p>\n<p>Both locations have pick-your-own pumpkin patches and &#8220;fun zones&#8221; with giant inflatables and glow in the dark mini golf. Plus, an immersive trail with over 20 themes of carved pumpkin-scapes throughout. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jack-o-lantern-2-edited.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Jack O&#8217; Lantern World<\/p>\n<p>Between the two locations, over 10,000 real pumpkins will be carved, the company said. <\/p>\n<p>Tickets are on sale now for the Lake Zurich location and will go on sale Oct. 2 for the Lemont location. <\/p>\n<p>More information is available <a href=\"https:\/\/thejackolanternworld.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Famous for housing the world&#8217;s largest collection of real pumpkin jack-o&#8217;-lanterns weighing over 1,000 pounds, Jack O&#8217; Lantern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":198451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5386,1818,1072],"class_list":{"0":"post-198450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-things-to-do"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115143766490613996","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}