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Schiller Park · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 180700784 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC
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High play · high holdMomentum +10%YoY −8%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$82,490
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$443
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$845,934
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$13,748
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
94th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#2 of 12 in Schiller Park
Hold
12.3%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
89th pct of 8,611 IL locations
100th pct of 12 in Schiller Park
Cycle rate
2.69×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
61st pct of 8,611 IL locations
58th pct of 12 in Schiller Park
Play / machine
$111.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
87th pct of 8,611 IL locations
75th pct of 12 in Schiller Park

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$8,639/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
$82,490
Gaming tax
−$28,871
After tax
$53,618
Your take-home
$26,809
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$28,871 · 35%Operator's 50%$26,809 · 33%Yours, 50%$26,809 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $26,809 to you and $26,809 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 — 94th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Schiller Park — #2 of 12 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 92nd percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Schiller Park peers11 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Schiller Park peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each gray dot is another Schiller Park 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 $94,713
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Schiller Park median ($38,427)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.69× · 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 $443 · Schiller Park median $207
your WPU (per machine, per day) Schiller Park median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 12.3% · 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.

This year against last, by monthAugust 2026 down 8% 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 +12% this year vs +62% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

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

Your own gameset is −8% 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)
$443/day
per machine · per day · Schiller Park median $207/day · +115%
WPU momentum
+11%
last 3 months $390/day vs prior 3 $352/day
Seasonality
August peak
strongest August ($64,304 avg) · softest November ($39,907 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±14% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC
Locations
2,551
Avg NTI / Location
$33,097
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,782
Total NTI
$84,429,268

Year over year

Your NTI is +34% up year over year, outpacing the Cook County market (+5%).

Your Location
+34%
$845,934 vs $631,716 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+5%
typical Location: $42,503 vs $40,673

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $13,748 in August 2026 — the 94th 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 Schiller Park, that's #2 of 12 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 12.3% — 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 2.69× 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 $28,871 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $26,809 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +10% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2551 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
$671,017
Amount won
$588,527
Net wager
$82,490
Funds in
$249,593
Funds out
$167,103
Net terminal income
$82,490
NTI tax
$28,871
State share
$24,743
Municipality share
$4,129

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