Hey, spookypals: don’t miss this one! Our fave Chicago blog, The Curious Traveler’s Guide to Route 66 in Metro Chicago aka CuriousTraveler66.com, just posted about a paranormal tour at the restored downtown Joliet, IL movie palace and performing arts theater, the Rialto Square Theatre on Chicago Street. It seems that there was a paranormal investigation […]
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Hello again, spooky friends! Today’s installment of ghost stories is courtesy of Marie’s other blog, CuriousTraveler66. It concerns the apparitions of Father Kellen Ryan, a Carmelite priest who taught history at and eventually became dean of Joliet Catholic High School in Joliet, IL, now known as Joliet Catholic Academy and located in a different part […]

Route 66 has its share of ghost stories – mostly in the form of ghost towns out west that didn’t survive the changeover to interstates and modern living – and there are plenty of stories among the paranormal set of haunted theaters. But a haunted theater on historic Route 66? You bet: in Joliet, IL. […]