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Driftwood Grille

Oakbrook Terrace · DuPage County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 160703258 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum −3%YoY −12%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$36,486
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$203
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$551,948
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$6,081
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
66th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#14 of 20 in Oakbrook Terrace
Hold
8.4%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
31st pct of 8,629 IL locations
35th pct of 20 in Oakbrook Terrace
Cycle rate
2.17×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
7th pct of 8,629 IL locations
18th pct of 20 in Oakbrook Terrace
Play / machine
$72.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
70th pct of 8,629 IL locations
40th pct of 20 in Oakbrook Terrace

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$1,093/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
$36,486
Gaming tax
−$12,770
After tax
$23,716
Your take-home
$11,858
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$12,770 · 35%Operator's 50%$11,858 · 32%Yours, 50%$11,858 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $11,858 to you and $11,858 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 — 66th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Oakbrook Terrace — #14 of 20 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 60th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Oakbrook Terrace peers19 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Oakbrook Terrace peer (anonymized) statewide median

1 peer location sits beyond the axis range and is drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Oakbrook Terrace 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 $59,934
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Oakbrook Terrace median ($48,009) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.17× · 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 $203 · Oakbrook Terrace median $267
your WPU (per machine, per day) Oakbrook Terrace median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.4% · 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 monthSeptember 2026 down 12% 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 −39% this year vs −3% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Oakbrook Terrace's total gaming income is +7% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −12% 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)
$203/day
per machine · per day · Oakbrook Terrace median $267/day · −24%
At the Oakbrook Terrace median this gameset would add roughly $138,275 a year.
WPU momentum
+1%
last 3 months $241/day vs prior 3 $240/day
Seasonality
December peak
strongest December ($41,030 avg) · softest July ($26,903 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±17% 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 +2% up year over year, trailing the DuPage County market (+6%).

Your Location
+2%
$551,948 vs $538,651 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (DuPage County)
+6%
typical Location: $46,792 vs $44,075

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $6,081 in September 2026 — the 66th 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 Oakbrook Terrace, that's #14 of 20 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 8.4% — 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 2.17× 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 $12,770 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $11,858 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −3% 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
$433,400
Amount won
$396,914
Net wager
$36,486
Funds in
$200,114
Funds out
$163,628
Net terminal income
$36,486
NTI tax
$12,770
State share
$10,944
Municipality share
$1,826

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

Driftwood Grille — gaming performance, Oakbrook Terrace, DuPage County, IL — The Gameset