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Hillside Lounge

Hillside · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 120703713 · Operator: Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd. (as of June 2026)
High play · high holdMomentum −24%YoY −12%

Your performance · June 2026

NTI
$44,950
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$250
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$766,675
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$7,492
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,132/mo
75th pct of 8,597 IL floors
#5 of 8 in Hillside
Hold
9.4%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
51st pct of 8,597 IL floors
25th pct of 8 in Hillside
Cycle rate
2.21×
this month
state median 2.61× · engagement
9th pct of 8,597 IL floors
50th pct of 8 in Hillside
Play / machine
$79.3K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.2K/mo
75th pct of 8,597 IL floors
63rd pct of 8 in Hillside

Against floors your size (6+ terminals, 6,745 of them), your NTI/machine is +$2,536/mo vs the $4,955 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (June 2026)

NTI this month
$44,950
Gaming tax
−$15,733
After tax
$29,218
Your take-home
$14,609
your 50% this month

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $14,609 to you and $14,609 to your operator this month. Neither side can move that split. That's the whole point of The Gameset: since the money is set by statute, operators compete for your floor on service — games, cabinets, refresh cadence, response time — not on dollars.

Where your floor stands

High play · high hold

Strong demand and a healthy hold — your floor is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.

What an operator sees: An operator reads this as a proven, high-value floor and will compete hard on service to win it.

NTI/machine — 75th percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors this month
In Hillside — #5 of 8 floors by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among floors your size (6+ terminals) — 70th percentile of 6,745
The Floor — you among your Hillside peers7 peer floors
play per machine →
your floor a Hillside peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each grey dot is another Hillside floor for the same month, shown without identity. The dashed lines are the statewide medians — which quadrant you land in is the positioning above, drawn out.

Trend

Net terminal income by monthpeak $85,752
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Cook County median ($35,086)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.21× · state median 2.61×
your cycle rate state median

Cycle rate is a leading indicator: when players start cycling their money fewer times, it usually shows up here before it shows up in NTI — an early read on floor health for you and for an operator.

Win per unit by monthlatest $250 · Cook County median $200
your WPU (per machine, per day) Cook County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.4% · state median 9.4%
your hold state median hold

These are the two series a service change shows up in. Fresher titles and faster response tend to move win per unit first; hold follows the game mix. Both are your own numbers against a neutral market line — not a verdict on anyone.

Seasonality check: May → June moved +1% this year vs −16% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Hillside's total gaming income is +8% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own floor is −12% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your floor.

A deeper operator read

The same history, cut the way a Terminal Operator cuts it when they decide how hard to compete for your floor.

Win per unit (WPU)
$250/day
per machine · per day · Cook County median $200/day · +25%
WPU momentum
−23%
last 3 months $306/day vs prior 3 $397/day
Seasonality
April peak
strongest April ($73,584 avg) · softest July ($44,965 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±24% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd.

Linked to your Location as of June 2026 — the Illinois Gaming Board publishes this each month, so a recent change may not show yet.

Locations
30
Avg NTI / Location
$50,207
Avg NTI / Terminal
$8,706
Total NTI
$1,506,210

Year over year

Your NTI is +4% up year over year, trailing the Cook County market (+4%).

Your Location
+4%
$766,675 vs $740,222 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+4%
typical Location: $42,080 vs $40,475

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $7,492 in June 2026 — the 75th percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a floor on, because it strips out how many machines you run.
•Within Hillside, that's #5 of 8 floors by per-terminal earnings — the fairest like-for-like, since neighbors share the same foot traffic and economy.
•Hold — the share of money played that the floor keeps — was 9.4% — above the 9.4% state median. Hold is driven mostly by the games on the floor, which is exactly what an operator brings to the table.
•A dollar cycled through your machines 2.21× before leaving — higher means longer, more engaged sessions. When the cycle rate starts falling it usually shows up before NTI does, so it's an early read on floor health for both sides.
•High play · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your floor is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.
•After $15,733 in gaming tax, June 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $14,609 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service, not money.
•Recent momentum is softening — −24% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Sinbad's Castle Arcade, Ltd. runs 30 Locations in our data.
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Full June 2026 report detail
Amount played
$475,681
Amount won
$430,731
Net wager
$44,950
Funds in
$214,995
Funds out
$170,045
Net terminal income
$44,950
NTI tax
$15,733
State share
$13,483
Municipality share
$2,250

Source: Illinois Gaming Board monthly video gaming reports. This is public data about your own licensed Location, shown for informational purposes.

Hillside Lounge — gaming performance, Hillside, Cook County, IL — The Gameset