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Galloping Ghost Arcade is a video arcade located in Brookfield, Illinois (a suburb of Chicago).It opened on August 13, 2010, and as of December 2024, it contains over 1,019 arcade games, up from 130 at the time of opening, across 7,500+ square feet, making it the largest classic video arcade in the United States.
Wacker Drive façade of the Civic Opera Building with part of the arcade Detail of a sculpture by Henry Hering. The Civic Opera Building is a 45-story office tower (plus two 22-story wings) located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. The building opened November 4, 1929, and has an Art Deco interior.
Patrick O'Malley started the arcade as a personal collection of games in his parents' garage when he was still a teenager in Maple Park. But then he moved the games into a commercial retail space across town when he acquired the recently defunct Star Worlds chain of arcades (formerly located in Geneva, Illinois, and West Chicago, Illinois) from Tom Sofranski of Gerault Amusements. [5]
The one on Colfax Avenue has the largest collection of pinball games in the city at 42 machines, plus over 90 arcade games. Two of the locations serve food, including a donut burger, but all offer ...
Riverview Park was an amusement park in Chicago, Illinois, which operated from 1904 to 1967.It was located on 74 acres (30 hectares) bound on the south by Belmont Avenue, on the east by Western Avenue, on the north by Lane Tech College Prep High School, and on the west by the North Branch of the Chicago River. [2]
White City (sometimes listed as White City Amusement Park in print advertisements) was a recreational area located in the Greater Grand Crossing and Woodlawn community areas on the south side of Chicago from 1905 until the 1950s. [1]
GameWorks is a gaming-based entertainment center with a single location as of 2022.It was owned by then-owner ExWorks Capital, each venue featured a wide array of video game arcades, in addition to full-service bars and restaurants.
In May 2021, Pac-Man Entertainment was sold to Kiddleton, following Bandai Namco's decision to withdraw the amusement facility business in North America, citing the COVID-19 pandemic heavily impacting their business. [13] Pac-Man Entertainment would be rebranded as the Enterrium, stripping the location of its Pac-Man theme.