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Carol Stream · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 120710711
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High play · high holdMomentum +12%YoY +27%

Your performance · March 2024

NTI
$38,966
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$209
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$395,982
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$6,494
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,397/mo
67th pct of 8,359 IL locations
#11 of 23 in Carol Stream
Hold
9.9%
this month
state median 9.1% · above
66th pct of 8,359 IL locations
74th pct of 23 in Carol Stream
Cycle rate
2.78×
this month
state median 2.87× · engagement
39th pct of 8,359 IL locations
30th pct of 23 in Carol Stream
Play / machine
$65.7K
monthly · per terminal
state median $49.3K/mo
62nd pct of 8,359 IL locations
43rd pct of 23 in Carol Stream

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,033 of them), your NTI/machine is +$968/mo vs the $5,526 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (March 2024)

NTI this month
$38,966
Gaming tax
−$13,248
After tax
$25,718
Your take-home
$12,859
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$13,248 · 34%Operator's 50%$12,859 · 33%Yours, 50%$12,859 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $12,859 to you and $12,859 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 8,359 Illinois locations this month
In Carol Stream — #11 of 23 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 59th percentile of 6,033
Your gameset — you among your Carol Stream peers22 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Carol Stream peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Carol Stream 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 $43,247
2021
2022
2023
2024
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Carol Stream median ($37,560)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.78× · state median 2.87×
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 $209 · Carol Stream median $202
your WPU (per machine, per day) Carol Stream median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.9% · state median 9.1%
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 monthMarch 2024 up 27% on a year earlier
April 2023 – March 2024April 2022 – March 2023

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: February → March moved +15% this year vs +28% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Carol Stream's total gaming income is +9% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +27% 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)
$209/day
per machine · per day · Carol Stream median $202/day · +4%
WPU momentum
+16%
last 3 months $205/day vs prior 3 $177/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($34,281 avg) · softest January ($21,790 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±13% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Year over year

Your NTI is +15% up year over year.

Your Location
+15%
$395,982 vs $345,109 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market
Not enough county history

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $6,494 in March 2024 — the 67th percentile of 8,359 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 Carol Stream, that's #11 of 23 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 9.9% — above the 9.1% 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 2.78× 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 $13,248 in gaming tax, March 2024's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $12,859 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +12% against your trailing average.
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 March 2024 report detail
Amount played
$394,232
Amount won
$355,267
Net wager
$38,965
Funds in
$141,660
Funds out
$102,694
Net terminal income
$38,966
NTI tax
$13,248
State share
$11,300
Municipality share
$1,948

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