Nine years ago, Rebecca and Henry Kephart fell in love over pinball machines. “One of our dates was, we went and played pinball, and he beat me. No one’s ever beaten me at pinball, so I decided I ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. — Chicago has had a ...

Vaughn Jordan doesn’t have childhood memories of playing pinball, pumping quarters into a machine at an arcade or some random 7-Eleven. His entry into pinball was much more recent, during the pandemic ...

The downtown location, a nostalgia-packed parlor with about 100 machines spanning eras of the game, was closed Wednesday afternoon, with its windows covered in brown paper. It's now listed as ...

The pastime of pinball has lived a fraught existence. Whether due to public sentiment, hostile legislation, or a simple lack of popularity, the entire silver ball industry has repeatedly teetered on ...