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 ...

Chicago — 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 ...

Stern has picked up a number of amazing licenses to work with when it comes to creating new pinball machines over the years, and with each new machine, it seems to top itself. The latest crème de la ...

On a Tuesday night at Logan Arcade, a bar on Chicago’s Northwest Side, Ian, a 57-year-old assistant manager, looks at the Rick and Morty pinball machine. “This is a frustrating machine,” he says. He ...

Step into an unassuming industrial building in Teltow, just outside Berlin, Germany and a bright, clacking universe unfolds: Around 50 pinball machines line 200sq m, from classics like Wizard and The ...