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Penny's Place

Chicago Heights · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 130702604 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of June 2026)
High play · lower holdMomentum +5%YoY −15%

Your performance · June 2026

NTI
$55,996
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$311
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$740,423
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$9,333
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,132/mo
84th pct of 8,597 IL floors
#6 of 14 in Chicago Heights
Hold
7.7%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
22nd pct of 8,597 IL floors
7th pct of 14 in Chicago Heights
Cycle rate
2.54×
this month
state median 2.61× · engagement
41st pct of 8,597 IL floors
64th pct of 14 in Chicago Heights
Play / machine
$120.5K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.2K/mo
90th pct of 8,597 IL floors
82nd pct of 14 in Chicago Heights

Against floors your size (6+ terminals, 6,745 of them), your NTI/machine is +$4,377/mo vs the $4,955 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (June 2026)

NTI this month
$55,996
Gaming tax
$19,599
After tax
$36,397
Your take-home
$18,199
your 50% this month

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $18,199 to you and $18,199 to your operator this month. Neither side can move that split. That's the whole point of The Gameset: since the money is set by statute, operators compete for your floor on service — games, cabinets, refresh cadence, response time — not on dollars.

Where your floor 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 floor where better titles and merchandising pay off.

NTI/machine — 84th percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors this month
In Chicago Heights — #6 of 14 floors by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among floors your size (6+ terminals) — 80th percentile of 6,745
The Floor — you among your Chicago Heights peers13 peer floors
play per machine →
your floor a Chicago Heights peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each grey dot is another Chicago Heights floor 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 $118,690
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Chicago Heights median ($42,391)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.54× · state median 2.61×
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 floor health for you and for an operator.

Win per unit by monthlatest $311 · Chicago Heights median $236
your WPU (per machine, per day) Chicago Heights median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 7.7% · 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.

Seasonality check: May June moved −31% this year vs −23% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

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

Your own floor is −15% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your floor.

A deeper operator read

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

Win per unit (WPU)
$311/day
per machine · per day · Chicago Heights median $236/day · +32%
WPU momentum
+8%
last 3 months $365/day vs prior 3 $339/day
Seasonality
May peak
strongest May ($83,619 avg) · softest January ($52,133 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±13% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC

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

Locations
2,544
Avg NTI / Location
$32,056
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,603
Total NTI
$81,550,752

Year over year

Your NTI is −20% down year over year, trailing the Cook County market (+4%).

Your Location
−20%
$740,423 vs $920,979 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+4%
typical Location: $42,080 vs $40,475

Takeaways

Each terminal earned about $9,333 in June 2026 — the 84th percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a floor on, because it strips out how many machines you run.
Within Chicago Heights, that's #6 of 14 floors 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 floor keeps — was 7.7% — below the 9.4% state median, which a stronger game mix could recover. Hold is driven mostly by the games on the floor, which is exactly what an operator brings to the table.
A dollar cycled through your machines 2.54× 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 floor 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 $19,599 in gaming tax, June 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $18,199 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service, not money.
Recent momentum is building — +5% against your trailing average.
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Full June 2026 report detail
Amount played
$723,088
Amount won
$667,093
Net wager
$55,996
Funds in
$284,554
Funds out
$228,558
Net terminal income
$55,996
NTI tax
$19,599
State share
$16,796
Municipality share
$2,803

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

Penny's Place — gaming performance, Chicago Heights, Cook County, IL — The Gameset