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 ...

Once the contract was signed, the museum had the Gemini Giant moved the very next day, before the Wilmington Launching Pad property owner could cause more damage to her property or destroy the ...

The statue was put up in 1965 outside the Launching Pad Drive-In restaurant and Americana gift shop in Wilmington. The giant wears a green space suit and a space helmet, and holds a silver "rocket ...

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 ...