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AMERICAN LEGION STEGER POST NO. 521 STEGER, ILLINOIS

Steger · Will County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 120908989 · Operator: Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to growMomentum −12%YoY +14%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$18,944
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$102
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$243,048
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$3,157
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
37th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#10 of 15 in Steger
Hold
9.3%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
49th pct of 8,611 IL locations
53rd pct of 15 in Steger
Cycle rate
2.97×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
86th pct of 8,611 IL locations
90th pct of 15 in Steger
Play / machine
$33.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
37th pct of 8,611 IL locations
33rd pct of 15 in Steger

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,952/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
$18,944
Gaming tax
−$6,631
After tax
$12,314
Your take-home
$6,157
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$6,631 · 35%Operator's 50%$6,157 · 32%Yours, 50%$6,157 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $6,157 to you and $6,157 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

Room to grow

Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.

What an operator sees: An operator sees upside: a gameset where a real service upgrade has room to move the numbers.

NTI/machine — 37th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Steger — #10 of 15 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 30th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Steger peers14 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Steger peer (anonymized) statewide median

1 peer location sits beyond the axis range and is drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Steger 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 $30,352
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Steger median ($20,636)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.97× · 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 $102 · Steger median $120
your WPU (per machine, per day) Steger median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.3% · 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 14% 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 +3% this year vs −17% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Steger's total gaming income is +11% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +14% 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)
$102/day
per machine · per day · Steger median $120/day · −15%
At the Steger median this gameset would add roughly $39,861 a year.
WPU momentum
−20%
last 3 months $108/day vs prior 3 $135/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($19,393 avg) · softest September ($11,935 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±26% 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 +21% up year over year, outpacing the Will County market (+1%).

Your Location
+21%
$243,048 vs $200,579 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Will County)
+1%
typical Location: $37,297 vs $37,016

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $3,157 in August 2026 — the 37th 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 Steger, that's #10 of 15 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 9.3% — 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 2.97× 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.
•Room to grow — Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.
•After $6,631 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $6,157 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 Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC runs 2677 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$203,067
Amount won
$184,123
Net wager
$18,944
Funds in
$68,280
Funds out
$49,336
Net terminal income
$18,944
NTI tax
$6,631
State share
$5,682
Municipality share
$948

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