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European American Banquet Hall

Cicero · Cook County · IL · 5 terminals
IGB license 170700761 · Operator: Velasquez Gaming, LLC (as of March 2026)
Room to growMomentum +25%YoY −20%

Your performance · March 2026

NTI
$8,752
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$56
per machine · per day
Terminals
5
machines in service
Annual NTI
$81,496
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$1,750
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,676/mo
17th pct of 8,548 IL floors
#69 of 72 in Cicero
Hold
9.3%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
48th pct of 8,548 IL floors
40th pct of 72 in Cicero
Cycle rate
2.92×
this month
state median 2.65× · engagement
79th pct of 8,548 IL floors
93rd pct of 72 in Cicero
Play / machine
$18.9K
monthly · per terminal
state median $50.0K/mo
16th pct of 8,548 IL floors
4th pct of 72 in Cicero

Against floors your size (4–5 terminals, 1,632 of them), your NTI/machine is $569/mo vs the $2,319 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (March 2026)

NTI this month
$8,752
Gaming tax
$3,063
After tax
$5,689
Your take-home
$2,844
your 50% this month

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $2,844 to you and $2,844 to your operator this month. Neither side can move that split. That's the whole point of The Gameset: since the money is set by statute, operators compete for your floor on service — games, cabinets, refresh cadence, response time — not on dollars.

Where your floor 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 floor where a real service upgrade has room to move the numbers.

NTI/machine — 17th percentile of 8,548 Illinois floors this month
In Cicero — #69 of 72 floors by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among floors your size (4–5 terminals) — 38th percentile of 1,632
The Floor — you among your Cicero peers71 peer floors
play per machine →
your floor a Cicero peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each grey dot is another Cicero floor 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 $46,672
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Cicero median ($46,672)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.92× · state median 2.65×
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 floor health for you and for an operator.

Win per unit by monthlatest $56 · Cicero median $251
your WPU (per machine, per day) Cicero median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.3% · 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.

Seasonality check: February March moved +8% this year vs −2% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Cicero's total gaming income is +8% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own floor is −20% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your floor.

A deeper operator read

The same history, cut the way a Terminal Operator cuts it when they decide how hard to compete for your floor.

Win per unit (WPU)
$56/day
per machine · per day · Cicero median $251/day · −77%
At the Cicero median this floor would add roughly $361,700 a year.
WPU momentum
+53%
last 3 months $47/day vs prior 3 $31/day
Seasonality
May peak
strongest May ($13,987 avg) · softest January ($8,760 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±30% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Velasquez Gaming, LLC

Linked to your Location as of March 2026 — the Illinois Gaming Board publishes this each month, so a recent change may not show yet.

Locations
49
Avg NTI / Location
$19,778
Avg NTI / Terminal
$3,699
Total NTI
$969,143

Year over year

Your NTI is −43% down year over year, trailing the Cook County market (+3%).

Your Location
−43%
$81,496 vs $143,019 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+3%
typical Location: $41,472 vs $40,181

Takeaways

Each terminal earned about $1,750 in March 2026 — the 17th percentile of 8,548 Illinois floors that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a floor on, because it strips out how many machines you run.
Within Cicero, that's #69 of 72 floors 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 floor keeps — was 9.3% — below the 9.4% state median, which a stronger game mix could recover. Hold is driven mostly by the games on the floor, which is exactly what an operator brings to the table.
A dollar cycled through your machines 2.92× 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 floor 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 $3,063 in gaming tax, March 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $2,844 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service, not money.
Recent momentum is building — +25% against your trailing average.
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Full March 2026 report detail
Amount played
$94,331
Amount won
$85,579
Net wager
$8,752
Funds in
$32,337
Funds out
$23,585
Net terminal income
$8,752
NTI tax
$3,063
State share
$2,625
Municipality share
$438

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

European American Banquet Hall — gaming performance, Cicero, Cook County, IL — The Gameset