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LYNN CATHERINE'S

Fox Lake · Lake County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 160700314 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum +8%YoY −18%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$20,100
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$108
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$257,545
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$3,350
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
40th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#16 of 26 in Fox Lake
Hold
6.7%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
12th pct of 8,611 IL locations
15th pct of 26 in Fox Lake
Cycle rate
2.90×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
81st pct of 8,611 IL locations
83rd pct of 26 in Fox Lake
Play / machine
$49.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
52nd pct of 8,611 IL locations
58th pct of 26 in Fox Lake

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,759/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
$20,100
Gaming tax
−$7,035
After tax
$13,065
Your take-home
$6,533
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$7,035 · 35%Operator's 50%$6,533 · 32%Yours, 50%$6,533 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $6,533 to you and $6,533 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 · 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 gameset where better titles and merchandising pay off.

NTI/machine — 40th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Fox Lake — #16 of 26 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 32nd percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Fox Lake peers25 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Fox Lake peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Fox Lake 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 $44,131
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Fox Lake median ($22,829)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.90× · 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 $108 · Fox Lake median $123
your WPU (per machine, per day) Fox Lake median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 6.7% · 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.

This year against last, by monthAugust 2026 down 18% 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 −28% this year vs +28% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Fox Lake's total gaming income is +5% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −18% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your gameset.

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)
$108/day
per machine · per day · Fox Lake median $123/day · −12%
At the Fox Lake median this gameset would add roughly $32,747 a year.
WPU momentum
+3%
last 3 months $135/day vs prior 3 $131/day
Seasonality
April peak
strongest April ($28,035 avg) · softest January ($16,672 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±26% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Gold Rush Amusements, Inc.

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
729
Avg NTI / Location
$37,312
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,498
Total NTI
$27,200,241

Year over year

Your NTI is +9% up year over year, outpacing the Lake County market (+3%).

Your Location
+9%
$257,545 vs $235,699 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Lake County)
+3%
typical Location: $38,736 vs $37,626

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $3,350 in August 2026 — the 40th 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 Fox Lake, that's #16 of 26 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 6.7% — 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 2.90× 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 · lower hold — Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
•After $7,035 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $6,533 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +8% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. runs 729 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$298,542
Amount won
$278,442
Net wager
$20,100
Funds in
$102,976
Funds out
$82,875
Net terminal income
$20,100
NTI tax
$7,035
State share
$6,029
Municipality share
$1,006

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

LYNN CATHERINE'S — gaming performance, Fox Lake, Lake County, IL — The Gameset