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St. Charles · Kane County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 160703007 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to growMomentum −67%YoY −89%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$1,391
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$8
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$142,972
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$232
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
1st pct of 8,629 IL locations
#28 of 27 in St. Charles
Hold
1.6%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
1st pct of 8,629 IL locations
4th pct of 27 in St. Charles
Cycle rate
1.99×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
3rd pct of 8,629 IL locations
4th pct of 27 in St. Charles
Play / machine
$14.9K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
14th pct of 8,629 IL locations
19th pct of 27 in St. Charles

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is −$4,757/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
$1,391
Gaming tax
−$487
After tax
$904
Your take-home
$452
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$487 · 35%Operator's 50%$452 · 33%Yours, 50%$452 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $452 to you and $452 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

Room to grow

Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.

What an operator sees: An operator sees upside: a gameset where a real service upgrade has room to move the numbers.

NTI/machine — 1st percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In St. Charles — #28 of 27 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 1st percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your St. Charles peers26 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a St. Charles 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 St. Charles 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 $21,106
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior St. Charles median ($15,352) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 1.99× · 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 $8 · St. Charles median $102
your WPU (per machine, per day) St. Charles median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 1.6% · 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 monthSeptember 2026 down 89% 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 −79% this year vs +11% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

St. Charles's total gaming income is +14% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −89% 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)
$8/day
per machine · per day · St. Charles median $102/day · −92%
At the St. Charles median this gameset would add roughly $204,377 a year.
WPU momentum
−72%
last 3 months $25/day vs prior 3 $90/day
Seasonality
November peak
strongest November ($10,617 avg) · softest September ($3,871 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±44% 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 +16% up year over year, outpacing the Kane County market (+6%).

Your Location
+16%
$142,972 vs $123,570 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Kane County)
+6%
typical Location: $37,653 vs $35,369

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $232 in September 2026 — the 1st 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 St. Charles, that's #28 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 1.6% — 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 1.99× 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.
•Room to grow — Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.
•After $487 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $452 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −67% 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
$89,582
Amount won
$88,191
Net wager
$1,391
Funds in
$44,904
Funds out
$43,512
Net terminal income
$1,391
NTI tax
$487
State share
$417
Municipality share
$70

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