Crain's: Genevans Spend More than $120K in Adult Halloween Costumes

There's a little Halloween spirit in all of us, apparently.

A Crain's Chicago Business report on "Spooky Spending" shows that Geneva residents spent more than $120,000 last year on adult Halloween costumes.

Our neighbors to the north—fresh off of their annual Scarecrow Fest—spent more than $180,000 when you combine the two zip codes. Batavia adults showed the most Halloween restraint of the Tri-Cities, spending a little more than $64,000 in 2011.

The league leader in Kane County probably is Barrington, which spent more than $231,000 in adult costumes.

Crain's interactive map is based on zip codes, so you have to do a little mental arithmatic to figure some of the towns' Halloween spending habits, and a few readers commented that a per capital total would have been a more accurate reflection of which towns are the real Halloween enthusiasts. But it's all in good fun, and you can take the stats for what they are.

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