Día de los Muertos Is Coming to Rogers Park — Here's What's Happening This Weekend and Beyond
By Socialhood News · Rogers Park ·
Rogers Park neighbors, Halloween falls on Saturday this year — and the neighborhood is already looking ahead to what comes next. Businesses along Rogers Park's corridors are gearing up for a Día de los Muertos celebration that picks up right where Halloween leaves off, featuring family-friendly activities, artwork, and food. The event was highlighted this week by ABC7 Chicago, which on Tuesday, October 27 aired a segment on the upcoming festivities with Carolina Juarez, business district manager at the Rogers Park Business Alliance.
Día de los Muertos — the Day of the Dead — is observed on November 1 and 2 each year, making this weekend's transition from Halloween into the holiday a natural one for a neighborhood as culturally rich and diverse as Rogers Park. The Rogers Park Business Alliance, which manages several of the neighborhood's key commercial corridors and special service areas, is the organizing force behind the celebration. Juarez's appearance on ABC7 signals that the RPBA is actively promoting the event to a citywide audience, not just to residents already plugged into neighborhood programming — a sign of the scale and ambition the alliance is bringing to it.
The timing couldn't be better for a neighborhood that has been building serious cultural momentum through 2026. Rogers Park's identity as one of Chicago's most ethnically and artistically diverse communities makes it a natural home for Día de los Muertos programming. The holiday's combination of visual art — ofrendas, marigolds, hand-painted calaveras — food, music, and intergenerational community gathering maps directly onto what Rogers Park's business corridors and cultural organizations do best.
For neighbors wanting to stay connected to the full scope of what the Rogers Park Business Alliance has coming up, visit rpba.org or stop by the RPBA offices at 1448 W. Morse Ave. The alliance has been one of the most active organizing forces in the neighborhood throughout 2026, from the opening of Callan Plaza on Howard Street to its ongoing GROW entrepreneurial training program for aspiring business owners.
And if you're out in the neighborhood today — Halloween, Saturday, October 31 — the Rogers Park Branch of the Chicago Public Library at 6907 N. Clark St. has also been in a festive spirit this week. The branch hosted a Spooky Music Jam on Monday, October 26, from 6:00 to 7:45 p.m., part of a packed late-October programming slate that also included a LEGO event and a Graphic Novel Discussion on the same evening. The library's calendar reflects the same community energy that makes Rogers Park's fall season feel distinct: layered, participatory, and genuinely neighborhood-rooted.
This weekend, as trick-or-treaters make their way through Rogers Park's tree-lined blocks and the neighborhood marks the turn from October into November, the Día de los Muertos preparations unfolding along its commercial strips are a reminder that the cultural calendar here doesn't pause — it builds. Keep an eye on the Rogers Park Business Alliance at rpba.org for full details on times, locations, and how to take part in the Día de los Muertos festivities as they come together over the next several days.
Sources:
1. https://abc7chicago.com/videoClip/19983071/
2. https://www.chipublib.org/locations/61/
3. https://business.rpba.org/events/search