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Emmy's Cafe

Coal City · Grundy County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 160701460 · Operator: Lucky Day LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum −0%YoY +24%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$48,240
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$259
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$522,963
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$8,040
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
77th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#2 of 8 in Coal City
Hold
11.4%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
83rd pct of 8,611 IL locations
88th pct of 8 in Coal City
Cycle rate
2.45×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
31st pct of 8,611 IL locations
38th pct of 8 in Coal City
Play / machine
$70.4K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
68th pct of 8,611 IL locations
75th pct of 8 in Coal City

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$2,931/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
$48,240
Gaming tax
−$16,884
After tax
$31,356
Your take-home
$15,678
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$16,884 · 35%Operator's 50%$15,678 · 32%Yours, 50%$15,678 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $15,678 to you and $15,678 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 — 77th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Coal City — #2 of 8 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 72nd percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Coal City peers7 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Coal City peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each gray dot is another Coal City 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 $67,158
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Grundy County median ($21,538)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.45× · 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 $259 · Grundy County median $128
your WPU (per machine, per day) Grundy County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 11.4% · 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 24% 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 +9% this year vs +13% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Coal City's total gaming income is +23% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +24% 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)
$259/day
per machine · per day · Grundy County median $128/day · +103%
WPU momentum
−5%
last 3 months $245/day vs prior 3 $257/day
Seasonality
December peak
strongest December ($51,173 avg) · softest January ($39,851 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±15% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Lucky Day 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
35
Avg NTI / Location
$59,316
Avg NTI / Terminal
$9,933
Total NTI
$2,076,043

Year over year

Your NTI is +10% up year over year, outpacing the Grundy County market (+5%).

Your Location
+10%
$522,963 vs $477,546 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Grundy County)
+5%
typical Location: $27,208 vs $25,822

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $8,040 in August 2026 — the 77th 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 Coal City, that's #2 of 8 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 11.4% — 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 2.45× 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 $16,884 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $15,678 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Lucky Day LLC runs 35 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
$422,422
Amount won
$374,182
Net wager
$48,240
Funds in
$172,758
Funds out
$124,518
Net terminal income
$48,240
NTI tax
$16,884
State share
$14,470
Municipality share
$2,414

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