Thirty years ago, when a truck driver or college student put a coin in a pinball machine to while away a few pleasant moments, he’d test his skills-and maybe do a little body-English “gunching ...

The whirring and dinging pinball machines that once dominated arcades lived, for a while, shrouded in nostalgia in your grandparents’ basement. But now they are having a resurgence, brought on ...

Once the manufacturing capital for the world’s pinball machines, Chicago is now the last, best hope for those loud and gaudy electronic games By J. C. Gabel March 17, 2010, 11:52 am ...

Chicago police seized a pinball machine from Harry Wicky’s tavern in East Garfield Park in 1953. A local judge dismissed it, calling the city’s ordinance against pinball invalid.

While the industry lost some ground to video game machines through the 80s, it continued to be successful. The most popular pinball machine of all time, for example, was The Addam’s Family; it ...

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 ...

Pinball has been a part of the Stern family since the 1930s, from the early table top models to today's sophisticated machines. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs West Suburbs ...