Why are we like this? I'm new

For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween.

In a first since 1938, Des Moines, Iowa, kids will trick-or-treat on Halloween

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There's a handful of places around the Midwest that do beggars night. The main reason I've heard was that it was to stop children from pulling pranks like egging/TPing houses, which honestly makes no sense to me. You just freed up their entire Halloween night for that by having trick or treating on a different day
It's such a low stakes change but at the same time, like, why bother changing it at all.