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Oak Lawn · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 160701784 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum −14%YoY −34%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$32,834
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$182
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$556,112
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,472
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
61st pct of 8,629 IL locations
#29 of 43 in Oak Lawn
Hold
6.8%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
12th pct of 8,629 IL locations
9th pct of 43 in Oak Lawn
Cycle rate
2.34×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
19th pct of 8,629 IL locations
24th pct of 43 in Oak Lawn
Play / machine
$80.5K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
75th pct of 8,629 IL locations
47th pct of 43 in Oak Lawn

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$484/mo vs the $4,988 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (September 2026)

NTI this month
$32,834
Gaming tax
−$11,492
After tax
$21,342
Your take-home
$10,671
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$11,492 · 35%Operator's 50%$10,671 · 32%Yours, 50%$10,671 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,671 to you and $10,671 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 — 61st percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Oak Lawn — #29 of 43 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 54th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Oak Lawn peers42 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Oak Lawn 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 Oak Lawn 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 $67,223
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Oak Lawn median ($44,691) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.34× · state median 2.59×
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 $182 · Oak Lawn median $248
your WPU (per machine, per day) Oak Lawn median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 6.8% · 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 monthSeptember 2026 down 34% on a year earlier
October 2025 – September 2026October 2024 – September 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: August → September moved −24% this year vs +14% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Oak Lawn's total gaming income is +11% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −34% 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)
$182/day
per machine · per day · Oak Lawn median $248/day · −27%
At the Oak Lawn median this gameset would add roughly $142,286 a year.
WPU momentum
−14%
last 3 months $218/day vs prior 3 $253/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($36,490 avg) · softest January ($21,725 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±19% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

J&J Ventures Gaming, 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
2,571
Avg NTI / Location
$31,971
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,578
Total NTI
$82,196,548

Year over year

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

Your Location
+10%
$556,112 vs $506,151 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+5%
typical Location: $42,751 vs $40,728

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,472 in September 2026 — the 61st percentile of 8,629 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 Oak Lawn, that's #29 of 43 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 6.8% — 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 2.34× 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 $11,492 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,671 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −14% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2571 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$483,014
Amount won
$450,180
Net wager
$32,834
Funds in
$206,171
Funds out
$173,337
Net terminal income
$32,834
NTI tax
$11,492
State share
$9,849
Municipality share
$1,643

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