BRIDGEPORT — Get scared.
The Chicago Youth Center Fellowship House's annual haunted house is a fundraiser benefiting a pair of neighborhood teen groups.
The event takes place 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, at Fellowship House, 844 W. 32nd St. The cost is $2 for kids 13 and under and $3 for everyone else.
This year, it's a collaboration between teens from Bridgeport's Fellowship House and the Elliot Donnelly Youth Center in Bronzeville, both run by Chicago Youth Centers, which offers early childhood and teen education programs.
"The kids have been working on it for the whole month, making the props and building scenes. They'll be the characters in it and the tour guides," said Tina Ayala, who runs Fellowship House.
Proceeds from the haunted house and associated bake sale will be used to help pay for a group outing.
"With whatever money they raise, they'll decide what trip they want to go on and for the bus to get there," Ayala said.
Founded in 1895 by the All Souls Unitarian Church, the Fellowship House is considered among the oldest of the city's settlement houses, which offered classes, social and recreational programs for working class and poor immigrants.
The group later linked up with Chicago Youth Centers, an amalgamation of boys and girls clubs founded by a pair of city businessmen in the 1950s.
Fellowship House became part of Chicago Youth Centers sometime around 1960, and today it continues offering a range of kid-focused programming and activities at its locations in Bridgeport, Grand Boulevard, Bronzeville, Humboldt Park, North Lawndale, South Shore, Riverdale, Altgeld Gardens and Roseland.
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