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Pumpkin patches in Illinois

Illinois farms that run a pumpkin patch most autumns. None has published this year’s dates yet — they go up here as each farm posts them.

Patches open from mid-September and most close on or just after Halloween, so the dates below are the ones to plan around. Of the 15, 8 keep farm animals or a petting zoo, 7 have a corn maze and 3 let you pick your own. What each farm charges is on its own page.

A patch, not a pumpkin: a place is listed because its own website says it runs a pumpkin patch, or because it is a farm whose autumn calendar says pumpkins. Carving demonstrations, a zoo’s pumpkin smash and a craft session making paper pumpkins are somewhere else, however the word appears in them.

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Patches usually open in the last two weeks of September and close on or just after Halloween, so this year’s dates start appearing in early September. These 15 Illinois farms run one most years, and each page carries the farm’s prices, opening hours and this year’s dates as soon as it posts them.