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Wood Dale Bowl

Wood Dale · DuPage County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 120708030 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum −12%YoY +40%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$35,982
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$200
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$484,520
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,997
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
65th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#6 of 16 in Wood Dale
Hold
9.0%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
41st pct of 8,629 IL locations
38th pct of 16 in Wood Dale
Cycle rate
2.65×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
57th pct of 8,629 IL locations
41st pct of 16 in Wood Dale
Play / machine
$66.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
67th pct of 8,629 IL locations
69th pct of 16 in Wood Dale

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$1,008/mo vs the $4,988 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (September 2026)

NTI this month
$35,982
Gaming tax
−$12,594
After tax
$23,388
Your take-home
$11,694
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$12,594 · 35%Operator's 50%$11,694 · 33%Yours, 50%$11,694 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $11,694 to you and $11,694 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 — 65th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Wood Dale — #6 of 16 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 59th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Wood Dale peers15 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Wood Dale peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each gray dot is another Wood Dale 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 $65,140
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Wood Dale median ($20,599)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.65× · state median 2.59×
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 $200 · Wood Dale median $140
your WPU (per machine, per day) Wood Dale median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.0% · 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 monthSeptember 2026 up 40% on a year earlier
October 2025 – September 2026October 2024 – September 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: August → September moved +11% this year vs −16% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Wood Dale's total gaming income is +15% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +40% 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)
$200/day
per machine · per day · Wood Dale median $140/day · +43%
WPU momentum
−20%
last 3 months $186/day vs prior 3 $231/day
Seasonality
April peak
strongest April ($43,978 avg) · softest July ($24,553 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±24% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

J&J Ventures Gaming, 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
2,571
Avg NTI / Location
$31,971
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,578
Total NTI
$82,196,548

Year over year

Your NTI is −1% down year over year, trailing the DuPage County market (+6%).

Your Location
−1%
$484,520 vs $487,459 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (DuPage County)
+6%
typical Location: $46,792 vs $44,075

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,997 in September 2026 — the 65th percentile of 8,629 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 Wood Dale, that's #6 of 16 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 9.0% — 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 2.65× 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 $12,594 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $11,694 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −12% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2571 Locations in our data.
You're ahead of your market.

A gameset doing these numbers is the one Operators compete hardest for — and most owners never find out what that competition is worth, because they never put it out to bid.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$400,975
Amount won
$364,993
Net wager
$35,982
Funds in
$151,536
Funds out
$115,554
Net terminal income
$35,982
NTI tax
$12,594
State share
$10,793
Municipality share
$1,801

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

Wood Dale Bowl — gaming performance, Wood Dale, DuPage County, IL — The Gameset