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Schaer Farms' Hilly Lane Pumpkins is a family pumpkin farm west of Sparland growing about 25 pumpkin varieties on roughly 5 acres alongside sunflowers, sweet corn, and other produce. Fall features include a pick-your-own pumpkin patch, a corn maze, hayrack rides, and a petting zoo, plus honey and fresh eggs. The Schaer family started the business in 2005.
Jack's Pumpkin Pop-Up is a seasonal pop-up attraction on a two-acre lot near Goose Island in Chicago, featuring a corn maze, over 10,000 pumpkins for sale, food trucks, and photo displays, alongside 18+ axe throwing and a bar. The operator's own site confirms a 2026 season running September 10 through November 2. It is a temporary seasonal installation rather than a year-round farm property.
Odyssey Fun Farm is a 110-acre seasonal attraction in Tinley Park featuring a roughly 15-acre corn maze and a 13-acre pumpkin patch. Additional attractions include hayrides, a petting zoo, pony rides, a cow train, corn cannons, and inflatable rides. The farm sells tickets online and has operated as a fall destination since at least 2024.
Okaw Valley Orchard is a family-run apple and peach orchard near Sullivan, Illinois offering pick-your-own apples and a fall pumpkin patch, along with hayrides around the orchard and a small petting pen with goats. Admission is free, with a shaded playground, picnic areas, and an on-site bakery selling cider and cider doughnuts. The orchard also holds an annual apple festival over Columbus Day weekend.
Rendleman Orchards in Alto Pass, in southern Illinois wine country, offers u-pick pumpkins, u-pick mums, and u-pick flower fields of zinnias, cosmos, and sunflowers in the fall. The farm market sells apple cider donuts, cider slushies, and seasonal produce.
Shady Knoll Farm is a sixth-generation family farm on Dennhardt Road in East Moline that has grown crops since 1863. Its fall season features a six-acre pick-your-own pumpkin patch, a five-acre self-guided corn maze, a smaller bale maze, and a petting area with goats, sheep, and rabbits, with free walk-in admission to browse the patch itself. Maze tickets, animal feed, and pumpkins are purchased separately at the farm's pumpkin shed.
Smiley's Family Farm is a family-run farm in Industry, Illinois offering more than 15 varieties of pumpkins, gourds, and squash, an apple orchard, and tractor-pulled hayrides. The farm sells cider, honey, and other fall goods from its farm market and hosts weekday school tours. It opens weekends starting mid-September.
All Seasons Orchard is a large apple orchard, pumpkin patch, and corn maze in Woodstock, Illinois, with roughly 16,000 apple trees. Attractions include a 10-acre corn maze with three miles of pathways, a petting zoo, pony rides, a mini zip line, a ropes course, an apple cannon, and a sunflower trail, alongside a farm market selling pre-picked produce and food.
Country Kids Farm Market is a farm market and pumpkin patch in Peru, Illinois, open May through October. Its fall offerings, per the operator's own site, include a roughly three-acre pumpkin and gourd patch, mums, apple cider donuts, and weekend kids' activities such as a bouncy house and a train ride.
Forest View Farms is a horse boarding and riding facility in Tinley Park that also operates seasonal fall attractions, including a pumpkin patch, hayrides, and a petting zoo. It offers pony rides, face painting, and hosts birthday parties, weddings, and school tours. The farm's own website could not be independently verified during this research; details are sourced from the Village of Tinley Park's tourism site.
Greene Fields Farm is a working family farm in Greenfield, Illinois with a U-pick pumpkin patch featuring more than 160 pumpkin varieties, a milo/hay-bale maze, and u-pick apples. Free kids' activity areas include a straw bale fort, corn boxes, and a lookout tower, and visitors can see farm animals such as pigs, chickens, and dairy cows. The farm operates weekends only, September 5 through October 31, 2026.
Jones Country Gardens is a family-owned garden business near Pontiac, Illinois, that converts a wooded area each fall into 'Pumpkinland,' a walk-through of storybook character scenes. Additional farm attractions include pick-your-own pumpkins, hayrides, a straw maze, a corn maze, farm animals, and a playground area.
Sonny Acres Farm is a family-owned seasonal attraction in West Chicago offering a pumpkin patch, daytime and haunted hayrides, a haunted house/barn, and a self-feed petting zoo, alongside special events like car shows and craft beer festivals. The farm's own 2026 calendar confirms its Fall Fest begins September 19, 2026. The property has operated under the Nagel family tradition for over a century and is now run by the Joyaux and Fontana families.
Family-run farm market on Route 38 in DeKalb, operating since 1967, offering free weekend hayrides in October to a hidden pumpkin patch. A small playland includes a corn maze, farm animals, and wooden play structures alongside a seasonal produce and bakery market.
Braeutigam Orchards near Belleville is a family-owned orchard operating since 1831, with fruit growing established in 1935. The farm offers seasonal fruit and a farm market for family visits.
Apple orchard in Waterman offering pick-your-own apples from 25 varieties out of an 1880s converted apple barn with a craft and gift loft. A free children's play area includes a petting zoo and straw maze, and weekend wagon rides run out to the orchard and pumpkin patch.
Royal Oak Farm Orchard is an apple orchard in Harvard, Illinois, with over 30 apple varieties, a free petting zoo and playground, a carousel and train rides, and "Amaze 'N Apples," an apple-tree maze. In fall the farm adds a pumpkin patch, hayrides, and bonfire packages, along with a bakery and Country Kitchen restaurant on site.
The Great Pumpkin Patch at The 200 Acres near Arthur is a working farm known for hundreds of heirloom pumpkin, gourd, and squash varieties organized by culinary use. Visitors can explore the patch, visit the Homestead Bakery for from-scratch baked goods, and stop at Patches Pub.
Zaiser Pumpkin Farm is a pick-your-own and pre-picked pumpkin patch near Deer Creek offering hayrack rides, a pumpkin bounce house, and school tours. The farm sells decorative, edible, mini, and jack-o-lantern pumpkins along with corn stalks for fall decorating. It typically opens mid-September and runs daily through Halloween.
Happy Hollow U-Pick is a pick-your-own farm north of the Quad City Downs in rural East Moline that has operated since 1995. Alongside summer produce such as asparagus, sweet corn, and melons, it offers a pick-your-own pumpkin patch each October, including school pumpkin tours on weekdays. Pumpkins and winter squash are sold by weight rather than at a flat per-pumpkin rate.
Working farm in Sandwich known primarily for Christmas tree cutting and horse boarding, which per DeKalb County tourism sources also offers pick-your-own pumpkins, gourds, and squash with hayrides and bonfires on fall weekends, plus a Barn Store selling harvest decorations.
Heap's Giant Pumpkin Farm in Minooka offers a u-pick pumpkin patch, a corn maze, hayrides, farm animals, and children's playgrounds. Evening events include moonlight hayrides, a flashlight maze, and a separately run haunted corn maze.
Lindberg Pumpkin Patch is a family-run farm in Caledonia, Illinois, about nine miles north of Belvidere, open daily each fall for pumpkin picking. The 7-acre patch includes a seasonal corn maze, a barnyard petting zoo with chickens and goats, and an inflatable-ride play area called the Front Yard Playground. A Harvest Barn on site sells pre-picked pumpkins and other fall goods.