(Images: Ananya Mishra/CHS)

A Capitol Hill Hilloween tradition since 2018, the Volunteer Park Halloween Pet Parade got the spooky season’s festivities off to a monstrous start Sunday. The annual parade organized by the Volunteer Park Trust has grown into a costume contest, pet fair, and food truck event along with the band-led march through the park.

This year’s costumes stuck to mostly traditional themes of creepy spiders and surprise lions but a few new ideas for 2023 included the popular dog-cow and a chest-bursting Alien chihuahua. Jones the cat was nowhere to be found.

For more costumed fun for everyone, mark your calendar for Hilloween 2023 as the annual carnival and day of Broadway-area trick or treating takes place Saturday, October 28th on the AIDS Memorial Plaza above Capitol Hill Station. Learn more at hilloween.me.

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