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Stella's Place

Wheeling · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 130703786 · Operator: Midwest SRO, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +6%YoY +31%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$86,102
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$463
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$963,616
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$14,350
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
95th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#7 of 27 in Wheeling
Hold
9.6%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
54th pct of 8,611 IL locations
59th pct of 27 in Wheeling
Cycle rate
2.48×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
35th pct of 8,611 IL locations
44th pct of 27 in Wheeling
Play / machine
$149.3K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
94th pct of 8,611 IL locations
80th pct of 27 in Wheeling

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$9,241/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
$86,102
Gaming tax
−$30,136
After tax
$55,966
Your take-home
$27,983
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$30,136 · 35%Operator's 50%$27,983 · 33%Yours, 50%$27,983 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $27,983 to you and $27,983 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 — 95th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Wheeling — #7 of 27 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 93rd percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Wheeling peers26 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Wheeling 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 Wheeling 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 $98,348
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Wheeling median ($45,213)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.48× · 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 $463 · Wheeling median $243
your WPU (per machine, per day) Wheeling median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.6% · 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 31% 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 −7% this year vs +27% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Wheeling's total gaming income is +26% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +31% 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)
$463/day
per machine · per day · Wheeling median $243/day · +90%
WPU momentum
−8%
last 3 months $441/day vs prior 3 $477/day
Seasonality
May peak
strongest May ($78,276 avg) · softest January ($60,816 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±13% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Midwest SRO, 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
113
Avg NTI / Location
$81,290
Avg NTI / Terminal
$13,548
Total NTI
$9,185,795

Year over year

Your NTI is +15% up year over year, outpacing the Cook County market (+5%).

Your Location
+15%
$963,616 vs $839,174 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+5%
typical Location: $42,503 vs $40,673

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $14,350 in August 2026 — the 95th 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 Wheeling, that's #7 of 27 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 9.6% — 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 2.48× 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 $30,136 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $27,983 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +6% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Midwest SRO, LLC runs 113 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
$895,907
Amount won
$809,804
Net wager
$86,102
Funds in
$360,600
Funds out
$274,497
Net terminal income
$86,102
NTI tax
$30,136
State share
$25,826
Municipality share
$4,309

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