Kids also can pose for selfies with life-sized cutouts of Deadpool, Batman, Harley Quinn and other pop culture characters. Still, many of the customers are grown-ups.

John Deere (DE) pioneered self-driving technologies, even though they are more popularly linked to Tesla (TSLA). Current tractors can drive themselves after an operator maneuvers them around the perimeter of a field. Full automation may come soon.

The gym offers small group classes in pilates, yoga, Bohdi suspension and indoor cycling. Walden said the goal is to offer the quality of group training one could get in Chicago at much more affordable prices.

Dozer Park was quiet on Super Bowl Sunday. The polar vortex of the previous week had vacated the Midwest, leaving temperatures in Peoria, Illinois, in the upper-40s for most of that day. But baseball was far off. Nearly 700 miles south, the man in charge of taking care of that field was at the center of the sports universe and, for the briefest of moments, became part of its worldwide telecast.

"We’re looking at markets like Valparaiso, Schererville, Munster, Highland, Merrillville and St. John," he said. "Customers like having options. Gloria Jean’s has more than 900 locations now, and the new owner is pushing the pedal to open more stores. Consumers like the flavored coffee, with the flavor coming from the beans and not syrup. It’s good quality coffee."

Some studios have already begun investing in auto-coloring research, including OLM, the production studio behind the Pokémon anime. And similar AI colorization tools have been around for a few years, including Japanese AI startup Preferred Networks’ browser-based tool PaintsChainer, which is already being used by some manga publishers, and Style2Paints, a web-based bot created by a team of research students from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Soochow University.

Biggby sells a wide variety of coffees, freezes, tea lattes, and espresso-based drinks as well as a light food menu.

The pizzeria, known for its tavern-style square cut pizza and distinctive logo of a cartoonish mustachioed Italian chef, also delivered to parts of Munster, sold pizza by the slice and described itself as "a family tradition."

Lately, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio have exacerbated the transit crisis with a bitter, prolonged feud. The two of them will fight over anything—snowstorms, schools, pizza, naps, a deer in Harlem—but their most ferocious differences seem to be over the subways. Cuomo believes that the city is not contributing enough to the transit budget. De Blasio points out that it is paying two and a half billion dollars toward the current five-year capital-improvement plan. He also argues that city residents already pay the greater share of the M.T.A.’s bills, through fares and state taxes.

Some of the market participants in the global automotive robotic painting market identified across the value chain:

The Goldn Corral buffet will make its triumphant return to Schererville before year’s end, though likely after Christmas.

The small butcher shop occupied a strip mall with a smoke shop, laundromat and martial arts studio at 507 E. Glen Park in Griffith, along the busy 45th Street corridor.