Crawlloween 2026 · Check-in and pickup
Crawlloween Wristband Pickup: Times and Locations
You need a physical wristband to walk a Crawlloween route. Here is where and when to get one, for every crawl-night on the schedule.
Bring valid government-issued photo ID. 21+, no exceptions, at pickup and at every venue on the route. Collecting for a friend takes their barcode or QR code.
River North check-in, Halloween night 2025.
Check-in
Our check-in promise
Nobody at the table is the third most common complaint in this business. Here is what we do about it.
We cap every window
When you buy, you choose a check-in window. We sell a fixed number of wristbands per window and then that window closes. It closes because it is full, not because a timer said so.
Staff are there for the whole window
Not the first half hour. Named staff, with the list, from the minute the window opens until it closes.
Every window has a backup location
Published alongside the main one, on this page, before the night. If something happens to a venue, you already know where to go and you find out by text as well.
If you wait longer than ten minutes
If you arrive inside your window and the wait is longer than ten minutes, tell the staffer at the table.
2026
2026 pickup windows
One pickup party earlier in the week, then night-of check-in at each route's own venue.
Precedent
How pickup ran in 2025
Published while the 2026 schedule is pending, because it shows the shape works.
Thursday, pickup party
Joy District, 112 W Hubbard St, 8pm to midnight. Attendee-only. Halloween pre-crawl party, candy, the costume-prize briefing, and a free shot for the first hundred people through the door.
Friday, night-of pickup
River North: Hubbard Inn, 110 W Hubbard St, 5pm to 9pm.
West Loop: Reading Room, 858 W Lake St, 5pm to 9pm.
A four-hour window on the night, plus a four-hour window two days earlier. We are keeping that shape and extending it across three nights.
At the table
What to bring
Valid government-issued photo ID
21 and over, no exceptions, at pickup and at every venue on the route.
Your ticket barcode or QR code
On your phone or printed.
Collecting for a friend?
You need their barcode or QR code. Their name, their order number read aloud, or a screenshot of their text will not do it. Staff will turn you away, and that is on purpose, because the alternative is handing a stranger someone else's wristband.
The wristband goes on at pickup and stays on
Cut it off and it is done.
2025, photographed
A real wristband, a real table
The 2025 River North wristband, on a wrist, at the check-in table. Photographs from Halloween night 2025.
The 2025 River North wristband was glow green with red print reading Crawlloween Bar Crawl.
Pick a route
Every route publishes its own check-in venue and window times with the confirmed lineup.