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Galesburg · Knox County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 120705655 · Operator: Illinois Gaming Investors LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum −20%YoY +32%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$24,119
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$130
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$373,179
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$4,020
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
47th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#18 of 34 in Galesburg
Hold
7.0%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
15th pct of 8,611 IL locations
12th pct of 34 in Galesburg
Cycle rate
2.51×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
38th pct of 8,611 IL locations
44th pct of 34 in Galesburg
Play / machine
$57.1K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
58th pct of 8,611 IL locations
56th pct of 34 in Galesburg

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,090/mo vs the $5,109 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (August 2026)

NTI this month
$24,119
Gaming tax
−$8,442
After tax
$15,677
Your take-home
$7,838
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$8,442 · 35%Operator's 50%$7,838 · 32%Yours, 50%$7,838 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $7,838 to you and $7,838 to your operator this month. Neither side can move that split. That's the whole point of The Gameset: with the split set by statute, operators compete for your gameset on service — games, cabinets, refresh cadence, response time.

Where your gameset stands

High play · lower hold

Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.

What an operator sees: An operator sees busy machines with margin headroom — a gameset where better titles and merchandising pay off.

NTI/machine — 47th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Galesburg — #18 of 34 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 39th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Galesburg peers33 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Galesburg peer (anonymized) statewide median

2 peer locations sit beyond the axis range and are drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Galesburg gameset 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 $47,753
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Galesburg median ($23,452)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.51× · state median 2.60×
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 gameset health for you and for an operator.

Win per unit by monthlatest $130 · Galesburg median $138
your WPU (per machine, per day) Galesburg median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 7.0% · 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.

This year against last, by monthAugust 2026 up 32% on a year earlier
September 2025 – August 2026September 2024 – August 2025

A month that looks like a collapse is often just that month. Laid over the same months a year earlier, a seasonal dip and a real decline stop looking alike.

Seasonality check: July → August moved +30% this year vs −8% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Galesburg's total gaming income is +6% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +32% over the same-month-last-year comparison — holding up as well as or better than the town around you.

A deeper operator read

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

Win per unit (WPU)
$130/day
per machine · per day · Galesburg median $138/day · −6%
At the Galesburg median this gameset would add roughly $19,341 a year.
WPU momentum
−29%
last 3 months $151/day vs prior 3 $211/day
Seasonality
December peak
strongest December ($35,660 avg) · softest July ($26,601 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±26% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Illinois Gaming Investors LLC

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

Locations
398
Avg NTI / Location
$29,149
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,158
Total NTI
$11,601,356

Year over year

Your NTI is +16% up year over year, outpacing the Knox County market (+2%).

Your Location
+16%
$373,179 vs $322,733 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Knox County)
+2%
typical Location: $27,322 vs $26,688

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $4,020 in August 2026 — the 47th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a gameset by, because it strips out how many machines you run.
•Within Galesburg, that's #18 of 34 locations 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 gameset keeps — was 7.0% — below the 9.4% state median, which a stronger game mix could recover. Hold is driven mostly by the games in the gameset, which is exactly what an operator brings to the table.
•A dollar cycled through your machines 2.51× 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 gameset health for both sides.
•High play · lower hold — Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
•After $8,442 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $7,838 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −20% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Illinois Gaming Investors LLC runs 398 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$342,495
Amount won
$318,377
Net wager
$24,118
Funds in
$136,503
Funds out
$112,385
Net terminal income
$24,119
NTI tax
$8,442
State share
$7,234
Municipality share
$1,207

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