Santo Cordero smooths decals on the cabinets of pinball machines at the Stern Pinball Factory in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, on Feb. 22, 2024. E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/TNS CHICAGO — Due ...

The arcade as we once knew it is dead, but pinball is making a comeback–at least according to the companies who make the machines. The BBC’s Paul Rubens reports: Gary Stern, president of Stern Pinball ...

Due west of O’Hare International Airport, there is a neighborhood — formally, part of Elk Grove Village — that isn’t much of a neighborhood. It’s warehouses, drab gray offices. It’s Gertrude Stein’s ...

Five pinball machines, including the first licensed Star Wars unit, have been saved from the scrap heap and will eventually ...

Instead, his time at Madison Area Technical College was all about making sure that his Judge Dredd, Pin-Bot and Fire Power pinball machines were in proper working order. Hiring someone to fix a 25- to ...