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Tin Ceiling Tavern

Homewood · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 120709426 · Operator: Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +17%YoY +40%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$38,696
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$208
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$289,040
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$6,449
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
67th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#2 of 10 in Homewood
Hold
10.6%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
72nd pct of 8,611 IL locations
80th pct of 10 in Homewood
Cycle rate
2.83×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
76th pct of 8,611 IL locations
80th pct of 10 in Homewood
Play / machine
$60.9K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
61st pct of 8,611 IL locations
90th pct of 10 in Homewood

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$1,340/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
$38,696
Gaming tax
−$13,543
After tax
$25,152
Your take-home
$12,576
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$13,543 · 35%Operator's 50%$12,576 · 33%Yours, 50%$12,576 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $12,576 to you and $12,576 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 · high hold

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

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

NTI/machine — 67th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Homewood — #2 of 10 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 61st percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Homewood peers9 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Homewood peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each gray dot is another Homewood 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 $62,747
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Cook County median ($36,369)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.83× · 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 $208 · Cook County median $199
your WPU (per machine, per day) Cook County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 10.6% · 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 40% 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 +135% this year vs +20% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Homewood's total gaming income is −7% 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)
$208/day
per machine · per day · Cook County median $199/day · +4%
WPU momentum
−3%
last 3 months $145/day vs prior 3 $149/day
Seasonality
December peak
strongest December ($40,420 avg) · softest July ($28,622 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±27% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Accel Entertainment 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
2,677
Avg NTI / Location
$29,789
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,160
Total NTI
$79,746,194

Year over year

Your NTI is −26% down year over year, trailing the Cook County market (+5%).

Your Location
−26%
$289,040 vs $388,483 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+5%
typical Location: $42,503 vs $40,673

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $6,449 in August 2026 — the 67th 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 Homewood, that's #2 of 10 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 10.6% — above the 9.4% state median. 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 2.83× 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 · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.
•After $13,543 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $12,576 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +17% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC runs 2677 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 August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$365,538
Amount won
$326,842
Net wager
$38,695
Funds in
$129,104
Funds out
$90,409
Net terminal income
$38,696
NTI tax
$13,543
State share
$11,607
Municipality share
$1,937

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