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Elsie's Place Cafe

Waukegan · Lake County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 140702340 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of June 2026)
High play · lower holdMomentum +7%YoY +18%

Your performance · June 2026

NTI
$80,369
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$447
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$850,915
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$13,395
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,132/mo
94th pct of 8,597 IL floors
#8 of 59 in Waukegan
Hold
9.2%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
47th pct of 8,597 IL floors
53rd pct of 59 in Waukegan
Cycle rate
2.42×
this month
state median 2.61× · engagement
26th pct of 8,597 IL floors
61st pct of 59 in Waukegan
Play / machine
$145.4K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.2K/mo
94th pct of 8,597 IL floors
86th pct of 59 in Waukegan

Against floors your size (6+ terminals, 6,745 of them), your NTI/machine is +$8,440/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
$80,369
Gaming tax
−$28,129
After tax
$52,240
Your take-home
$26,120
your 50% this month

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $26,120 to you and $26,120 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 — 94th percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors this month
In Waukegan — #8 of 59 floors by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among floors your size (6+ terminals) — 92nd percentile of 6,745
The Floor — you among your Waukegan peers58 peer floors
play per machine →
your floor a Waukegan peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each grey dot is another Waukegan 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 $90,954
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Waukegan median ($36,644)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.42× · 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 $447 · Waukegan median $204
your WPU (per machine, per day) Waukegan median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.2% · 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 +11% this year vs +0% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Waukegan's total gaming income is +6% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own floor is +18% 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 floor.

Win per unit (WPU)
$447/day
per machine · per day · Waukegan median $204/day · +119%
WPU momentum
+3%
last 3 months $436/day vs prior 3 $423/day
Seasonality
August peak
strongest August ($76,241 avg) · softest January ($60,034 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±16% 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 +9% up year over year, outpacing the Lake County market (+3%).

Your Location
+9%
$850,915 vs $783,552 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Lake County)
+3%
typical Location: $38,533 vs $37,291

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $13,395 in June 2026 — the 94th 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 Waukegan, that's #8 of 59 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 9.2% — 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 2.42× 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 $28,129 in gaming tax, June 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $26,120 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service, not money.
•Recent momentum is building — +7% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2544 Locations in our data.
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Full June 2026 report detail
Amount played
$872,319
Amount won
$791,950
Net wager
$80,369
Funds in
$360,602
Funds out
$280,233
Net terminal income
$80,369
NTI tax
$28,129
State share
$24,107
Municipality share
$4,022

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