COAL CITY — Each class of Coal City Elementary School transformed into a variety of characters, some scary, some silly, for the school's annual Halloween parade Wednesday afternoon.

Exiting through the school's south doors, facing 2nd Street, some students donned gruesome makeup and masks as others dressed up like princesses, comic characters and well-known musicians.

The group paraded west on 2nd Street, north on N. Mary Street, then east on 3rd Street, as adoring parents and grandparents looked on with cameras, with some of the non-school-aged siblings getting in on the fun, too.