About HHC
HauntedHouseChicago.com was founded and launched in 1999 by dedicated haunted house enthusiast Kris Zahrobsky, who ran the site with his team of reviewers for many years and built the site into a Chicagoland Halloween institution. Since the 20th century, if you wanted to find a haunted house within 100 miles of Chicago, you had only to visit HauntedHouseChicago.com!
For various reasons, Kris decided to sell the website after the 2007 season. The new owners, John LaFlamboy and Chad Savage, kept Kris on as Edit-r-In-Chief and Lead Reviewer of HHC, and immediately overhauled the site to bring it into modern code compliance and to introduce new/improved site features like Google Maps and a more streamlined user review/rating system. Each season since 2008, they watched how the site works, listened to the criticisms and, every season, upgraded the site to better serve you, the Chicagoland haunted house seeker!
In 2024, John stepped back into an advisory position and Kris stepped back up to be Co-Owner of HHC with Chad. Kris continues to lead the HHC Review Team and act as HHC’s boots-on-the-ground ambassador, while Chad remains the guy-in-the-chair, taking care of the website, merch and other behind-the-scenes considerations.
HauntedHouseChicago.com actively encourages user interaction and reviews, but with the caveat that most users who leave a review have only visited a few area haunted houses (at best). The HHC Review Team has visited more haunted houses throughout Chicagoland than anybody else, and they do it every year. Who’s opinion are you going to trust?
You can read more about Kris here.
Chad is the owner of Sinister Visions inc., a visual design studio that specializes in haunted houses and dark-themed businesses internationally. Chad also runs the Dark Chicago series of websites, manages the marketing/website for the Flashback Weekend Chicago Horror Convention and the Midwest Haunters Convention, and generally does his best to keep things seriously spooky in Chicagoland.
John is the owner of Zombie Army Productions, which produces HellsGate Haunted House, locally-produced feature films and other projects.
