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May's Glendale Heights, LLC.

Glendale Heights · DuPage County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 180703750 · Operator: Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. (as of August 2026)
High play · high holdMomentum +6%YoY +76%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$72,201
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$401
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$783,947
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$12,034
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
91st pct of 8,629 IL locations
#4 of 21 in Glendale Heights
Hold
11.3%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
81st pct of 8,629 IL locations
86th pct of 21 in Glendale Heights
Cycle rate
2.44×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
29th pct of 8,629 IL locations
43rd pct of 21 in Glendale Heights
Play / machine
$106.3K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
86th pct of 8,629 IL locations
95th pct of 21 in Glendale Heights

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$7,045/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
$72,201
Gaming tax
−$25,270
After tax
$46,931
Your take-home
$23,465
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$25,270 · 35%Operator's 50%$23,465 · 33%Yours, 50%$23,465 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $23,465 to you and $23,465 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 — 91st percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Glendale Heights — #4 of 21 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 89th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Glendale Heights peers20 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Glendale Heights 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 Glendale Heights 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 $84,103
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Glendale Heights median ($43,747)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.44× · 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 $401 · Glendale Heights median $243
your WPU (per machine, per day) Glendale Heights median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 11.3% · 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 monthSeptember 2026 up 76% 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 −14% this year vs −24% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Glendale Heights's total gaming income is +6% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +76% over the same-month-last-year comparison — holding up as well as or better than the town around you.

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)
$401/day
per machine · per day · Glendale Heights median $243/day · +65%
WPU momentum
+0%
last 3 months $390/day vs prior 3 $388/day
Seasonality
August peak
strongest August ($57,424 avg) · softest June ($44,294 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±16% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Gold Rush Amusements, Inc.

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
733
Avg NTI / Location
$36,176
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,303
Total NTI
$26,517,213

Year over year

Your NTI is +38% up year over year, outpacing the DuPage County market (+6%).

Your Location
+38%
$783,947 vs $568,774 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (DuPage County)
+6%
typical Location: $46,792 vs $44,075

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $12,034 in September 2026 — the 91st 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 Glendale Heights, that's #4 of 21 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 11.3% — 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 2.44× 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 $25,270 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $23,465 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +6% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Gold Rush Amusements, Inc. runs 733 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 September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$637,763
Amount won
$565,562
Net wager
$72,201
Funds in
$261,599
Funds out
$189,398
Net terminal income
$72,201
NTI tax
$25,270
State share
$21,657
Municipality share
$3,614

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