🍦South Suburbs Scoop

October 10th, 2025

John Sintich
October 10, 2025

Happy Friday! We’ve finally got that crisp fall air that everyone has been asking for. 80 degree days are in the rear view and won’t be back for 8 months. I hope you’re all happy..

Here’s what’s happening in our neck of the woods:

Frankforter Oktoberfest Event Kicks Off
Morgan Wallen All Ages Halloween Party
Halloween Hours - New Lenox - Mokena - Manhattan
Gas Lowers to $2.99/Gallon
Multiple Upcoming Halloween Activities
Area Live Music and Sports - ILLINOIS HOSTS #1 OHIO STATE
Real Estate Round-Up

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Let’s Get Into It!

-John

WHAT’S NEW IN THE SOUTH ‘BURBS

📍 Mokena’s Potential for Buyers in 2026 - Video

📍 Current Average Home Value in Our Area - Video

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…

📍Jack in the Box Opens in New Lenox - Details

📍Frankfort’s Grainery Flag To Come Back - Details

📍More New Pickleball Courts Coming to Orland Park - Video

THIS WEEK’S LOCAL LIVE MUSIC

📍PROST OKTOBERFEST BAND - Hickory Creek (New Lenox) 🎟 Details
💲Free | 📅 Fri, Oct 10 | 6:30PM

📍JESSIE’S GIRL 80s TRIBUTE - The Chill House (Frankfort) 🎟 Details
💲$12.55 | 📅Fri, Oct 10 | 9:30PM

📍COUNTRY NIGHT - Jamo’s Live (Mokena) 🎟 Details
💲$9.35 | 📅Fri, Oct 10 | 9:00PM

📍MATT ZACH & TOM - Social 45 (Frankfort) 🎟 Details
💲Free | 📅Fri, Oct 10 | 7:30PM

📍BOY BAND NIGHT - Jamo’s Live (Mokena) 🎟 Details
💲$12.55 | 📅Sat, Oct 11 | 9:30PM

📍DAVE JERCHA LIVE - Hickory Creek (New Lenox) 🎟 Details
💲Free | 📅Sat, Oct 11 | 6:30PM

📍BIG DOG MERCER - Social 45 (Frankfort) 🎟 Details
💲Free | 📅Sat, Oct 11 | 7:30PM

📍MORGAN WALLEN HALLOWEEN PARTY - Jamo’s Live (Mokena) 🎟 Details
💲Kids $22 / Adults $10 | 📅Sun, Oct 12 | 4-7PM

📍OPEN MIC NIGHT - Hickory Creek (New Lenox) 🎟 Details
💲Free | 📅Tues, Oct 14 | 6:30PM

📍OPEN MIC NIGHT - Social 45 (Frankfort) 🎟 Details
💲Free | 📅Tues, Oct 14 | 7PM

GREATER CHICAGOLAND LIVE MUSIC & MORE

📍 October 10	Jordan Davis	Rosemont - Details
📍 October 17	Lainey Wilson	Rosemont - Details
📍 October 17 - 19	Disney’s Descendants	Elkhart, IN - Details
📍 October 18	Brett Michaels	Joliet - Details
📍 October 20	Adam Sandler	Chicago - Details
📍 October 23	Nate Bargatze	Chicago - Details

Cheapest Gas in the South Burbs!

PRICES AS OF 10/9 - Website

📍 Manhattan - $2.99 - ⬇️ From Last Week

📍 New Lenox - $2.99 ⬇️ From Last Week

📍 Mokena - $3.09 ⬇️ From Last Week

📍 Frankfort - $3.19 ⬇️ From Last Week

JOBS, ETC.

📍 Leap Behavior Therapy Now Hiring (Mokena) - Details

📍 Harvest Group Hiring (Cook County) - Details

📍 Numerous Student & Adult Opportunities at Thrift Home Restoration (Frankfort/Orland) - Details

📍 Mokena Miracles Seeking Nominations Ahead for Holidays (Mokena) - Details

FOR THE KIDDOS

📍 Oct 10 - Movie in the Square “Ghostbusters” (Tinley Park) - Details

📍 Oct 11 - Trunk or Treat at Amazing Love Church (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Until Oct 11 - Fire Prevention Week Events (Tinley Park) - Details

📍 Oct 12 - Fall Fun Fest (Oak Lawn) - Details

📍 Oct 12 - Morgan Wallen All Ages Halloween Party (Mokena) - Details

📍 Starting Oct 13 - Red Note Choir Sign Up for Grades K-5 (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Oct 13 - Free House of Frights (Mokena) - Details

📍 Oct 15 - Fall Game Night in the Square (Tinley Park) - Details

📍 Oct 15 - Alsip’s Venus Flytrap TERRORium Workshop (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 17 - Halloween Bash (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 18 - Harvest Hike (Mokena) - Details

📍 Oct 18 - Scary at the Prairie (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 18 - Halloween on the Farm at STRIDES (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 18 - Street of Dreams Trick or Treat (Mokena) - Details

📍 Oct 18 - Built-A-Bot Workshop at KidsWork Museum (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Oct 24 - Lego Art Class at Studio C (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 24 - Ghost Stories on the Green (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 24 - “Hotel Transylvania” Dive in Movie Event (Romeoville) - Details

📍 Oct 25 - Trunk or Treat with Police Department (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 25 - Halloween ComicFest 2025 (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 25 - Boo Ridge Trick or Treat Event (Burr Ridge) - Details

📍 Oct 26 - Boo Bash Halloween Event (Tinley Park) - Details

📍 Oct 28 to Nov 11 - Tuesday After School Art Classes (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Until Oct 29 - “Robotics” & “Chain Reactions” Classes at KidsWork (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Oct 31 - Trick or Treat Hours (Mokena) - Details

📍 Oct 31 - Trick or Treat Hours (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Oct 31 - Trick or Treat Hours (Manhattan) - Details

📍 Oct 31 - Wonder-Time Play Lounge Halloween Event (Orland Park) - Details

📍 Until Oct 31 - Boo at the Zoo at Brookfield Zoo (Chicago) - Details

📍 Until Nov 1 - Jack O’ Lantern World at the Forge (Lemont) - Details

📍 Nov 18 - NEW DATE: KPop Demon Hunters Art Class (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Now Enrolling Pre-K: Living Waters Children’s Center (Manhattan) - Details

📍 Kids Eat Free Wednesdays & Sundays at North + Maple (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Registration Open: Beginner & Art 1 Drawing & Painting Classes (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Take Care with Peanuts: The Exhibit at the Children’s Museum (Chicago) - Details

THIS WEEK’S LOCAL EVENTS & OFFERINGS

📍 Scariest Haunted Houses Nearby (Area-Wide) - Details

📍 Oct 10 to 11 - “The Franktober Oktoberfest” (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 10 - Friday Fish Fry at the VFW (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Oct 11 - Farmers Market (Tinley Park) - Details

📍 Oct 12 - Cars & Coffee at Gost Coffee/Hickory Creek (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Oct 12 - Cars & Coffee at Book Bar (Mokena) - Details

📍 Oct 12 - Puzzle Competition at Hickory Creek Brewing (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Oct 13 - Happy 250th Birthday Navy Celebration at American Legion (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Oct 14 - Free Poker Night at Jamo’s Live (Mokena) - Details

📍 Oct 15 - Line Dancers Anonymous at Jamo’s Live (Mokena) - Details

📍 Oct 15 - Trivia Night at Hickory Creek Brewing (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Oct 15 - Bingo Night at Hickory Creek Brewing (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Oct 16 - Downtown Witchy Night Out (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Registration Open for Artists Showcase (New Lenox) - Details

📍 October Events Calendar - Board & Brush (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Kozy Knits Events Calendar (Multiple Areas) - Details

UPCOMING LOCAL EVENTS

📍 Oct 18 - 9th Annual Pours for Parks Events (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 18 - Dog Howl-O-Ween Event (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 18 - 50th Holli-Daze Arts & Crafts Show (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 18 - Alsip’s Pond Closing Info Session (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 23 - 2nd Annual Hogwarts Alumni Holiday Event (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 25 - Alsip’s Pet Costume Contest (Frankfort) - Details

📍 Oct 27 -DYI Pie Wreath Making Workshop at Rosati’s (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Oct 29 - Ghouls Night Out Ale Trail Trolley (Tinley Park) - Details

📍 Nov 9 - Winter Craft Market via Francis Field Youth Foundation (New Lenox) - Details

📍 Nov 18 - Craft Beer & Beverage Tasting Event at the Museum (Joliet) - Details

📍 Dec 6 & 7 - Seeking Vendors For Winter Market (Tinley Park) - Details

📍 Dec 7 - Seeking Vendors For Christmas Market (Frankfort) - Details

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AREA SPORTS & MORE

📍Bears at Washington for Monday Night Football and Bulls Host Bucks on October 12

📍 This Weekend’s College Football: Illinois Hosts #1 Ohio State; Northwestern Heads to Penn State; and Notre Dame Hosts NC State. Check out the full college football schedule here!

📍HS Football: East Heads to Homewood-Flossmoor; West On a Bye; Central Heads to Andrew

ADOPTION PET OF THE WEEK! Meet Barnaby!

Barnaby is a super cute 1½-year-old Shepherd mix weighing about 50 pounds. He’s the perfect family dog — playful, gentle, and full of love! He gets along wonderfully with other dogs and adores kids, making him the ideal companion for a family looking to add a happy, loving pup to their home. Barnaby can’t wait to meet his forever family and start a lifetime of cuddles, walks, and fun adventures!.

Check out Barnaby and other adoptable pets! Visit the NAWS website for more information!

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Real Estate Roundup

This week, the Chicagoland area including Cook and Will county have 10,945 available homes for sale. That is a slight increase from last week's total of 10,908 homes available for sale.

The average 30-year fixed mortgage interest rate as of today is: 6.38%.

Mokena - Just Listed: 2 ⎸ Closed: 7
New Lenox - Just Listed: 4 ⎸ Closed: 17
Tinley Park- Just Listed: 22 ⎸ Closed: 26
Frankfort - Just Listed: 8 ⎸ Closed: 5