Forest Park Casket Races

Sat Oct 18, 2025
9:30am to 12:30pm CT
Age: All ages
Price: Free to watch; $40 per team to race
Location:
7500 Madison St
7500 Madison St, Forest Park, IL, 60301
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The Forest Park Casket Races is a delightfully eerie and offbeat annual event in downtown Forest Park, now celebrating its 13th year. Participants create their own "caskets," which are essentially coffin-shaped carts fitted with wheels and adorned in their favorite spooky decor.

 

The race features teams of costumed racers, each involving a helmet-clad "ghost" who takes residence in the casket and a group of runners who push the contraption with all their might along a 585-foot course down the street.

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