Milwaukee residents are split on the city’s decision to hold trick-or-treating on Halloween night this year instead of moving it to the weekend, as has been the tradition in recent years.
The city announced last week that official trick-or-treat hours will be Friday, Oct. 31, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., marking a departure from the usual Sunday afternoon festivities that many families have come to expect.
Catherine Casey, who lives in southwest Milwaukee, said the change disrupts her family’s Halloween tradition. Her grandchildren travel from Madison every year to trick-or-treat with her.
“We like to spend Halloween together on Sundays,” Casey said. “They go trick-or-treating, I go with them, then we come back and we have a big dinner to celebrate, and then they head home, but now we can’t do that on a Friday.”
Casey said she wishes the city had announced the change earlier…