Pinball is making a comeback, Erik Gilly explained as he stood inside his new game bar in downtown St. Charles a week before its opening.

A few steps away, a mural proclaiming that pinball was “born in Chicago” and is “loved by St. Charles” is on a wall behind a row of the arcade game machines.

As the director of North American sales for Stern Pinball, a major manufacturer of pinball machines based in Elk Grove Village, Gilly, 37, of St. Charles has a vested interest in the game’s resurgence.

But now, he’s hoping to share his love of pinball — and other games — at his new game bar, Rec Haus , which opened to the public last week at 12 N. Third St. in St. Charles.

The bar has rows of games — pinball, of course, as well as shuffleboard, darts, foosball, bocce ball and more — that patro

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