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This week's Chicagoan: Gary Stern, founder and CEO, Stern Pinball
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"Detroit was once the capital of automobiles, and Chicago is and will remain the capital of pinball."
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"A bird can hit a window at 30 miles per hour, so that's like you going through your windshield at 30 miles per hour."| 05.01.13
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"If you buy a dog on the Internet, and they tell you, 'I'll bring you the dog, and I'll meet you in the Red Roof Inn parking lot'—no, no, no, no, no."| 04.18.13
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"We get people who submit to us, and the story is predictable and lame, and there’s so many misspellings. The guy always gets the girl, or the girl always gets the guy."| 04.03.13
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Horrorbles houses its fair share of horror relics and kitsch, including remnants from the house where the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was shot.| 05.09.13
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This week firefighter Jeff Wiley shows us around Engine 60 in Hyde Park.| 04.19.13
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This week we're shown former 1st Ward alderman Michael "Hinky Dink" Kenna's gold star, gifted to him in 1897 by a group of his constituents.| 04.18.13
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Barkaat Foods occupies a slaughterhouse on the south side that's the last of its kind.| 04.18.13
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Almost a decade since its closing, the Brach's Candy Factory sits abandoned and neglected.| 04.15.13
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Of course the Filbert's Root Beer factory houses a bottled collection of flavored sodas . . . but what’s this about beer cans?| 04.01.13
