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10 ways to celebrate Día de Muertos in Chicago in 2026
Halloween is this weekend. But after all of the spooky storytelling, costume contests and trick-or-treating, Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead in English, happens each year on Nov. 1 and 2. The holiday, with roots in indigenous Mesoamerican and Spanish Catholic traditions, has been celebrated in Mexico and Central Lat
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Halloween is this weekend. But after all of the spooky storytelling, costume contests and trick-or-treating, Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead in English, happens each year on Nov. 1 and 2. The holiday, with roots in indigenous Mesoamerican and Spanish Catholic traditions, has been celebrated in Mexico and Central Lat