WILMINGTON, Ill. (WLS) -- A well-known Wilmington restaurant was damaged by its own owner. Police say the owner of the Launching Pad restaurant threw litter outside it and around the restaurant's ...

an iconic 28-foot tall astronaut looks down on the closed Launching Pad restaurant. New co-owner Holly Barker said the GoFundMe page launched Monday because the Wilmington community was anxious to ...

No trip down Route 66 is complete without a stop at the Launching Pad. The restaurant is a true ... The eatery isn't the sole draw to Wilmington, a small town 20 miles south of Joliet: many ...

That afternoon, a truck with a specially designed rack on its trailer pulled up in front of the Launching Pad to take the Gemini Giant away. Wilmington’s mayor announced the giant was only ...

Crews were seen Wednesday afternoon lifting the giant off its pedestal outside the old Launching Pad Drive-In restaurant and Americana gift shop in Wilmington. The statue was put up there in 1965.

Ryan Jandura was locked into a high-stakes, high-value online auction. The item up for grabs — which eventually sold for $275,000 — wasn’t jewelry or a painting. It was a 30-foot statue of ...