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BUCKLEY MOBIL

North Chicago · Lake County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 190703390 · Operator: Empire Gaming, LLC (as of June 2026)
High play · high holdMomentum +8%YoY +56%

Your performance · June 2026

NTI
$78,241
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$435
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$761,348
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$13,040
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,132/mo
93rd pct of 8,597 IL floors
#2 of 29 in North Chicago
Hold
11.4%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
82nd pct of 8,597 IL floors
76th pct of 29 in North Chicago
Cycle rate
2.17×
this month
state median 2.61× · engagement
7th pct of 8,597 IL floors
34th pct of 29 in North Chicago
Play / machine
$114.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.2K/mo
88th pct of 8,597 IL floors
86th pct of 29 in North Chicago

Against floors your size (6+ terminals, 6,745 of them), your NTI/machine is +$8,085/mo vs the $4,955 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (June 2026)

NTI this month
$78,241
Gaming tax
−$27,384
After tax
$50,856
Your take-home
$25,428
your 50% this month

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $25,428 to you and $25,428 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

High play · high hold

Strong demand and a healthy hold — your floor is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.

What an operator sees: An operator reads this as a proven, high-value floor and will compete hard on service to win it.

NTI/machine — 93rd percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors this month
In North Chicago — #2 of 29 floors by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among floors your size (6+ terminals) — 92nd percentile of 6,745
The Floor — you among your North Chicago peers28 peer floors
play per machine →
your floor a North Chicago peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each grey dot is another North Chicago 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 $84,435
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior North Chicago median ($30,199)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.17× · state median 2.61×
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 $435 · North Chicago median $168
your WPU (per machine, per day) North Chicago median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 11.4% · 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.

Seasonality check: May → June moved +51% this year vs −33% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

North Chicago's total gaming income is +2% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own floor is +56% 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 floor.

Win per unit (WPU)
$435/day
per machine · per day · North Chicago median $168/day · +159%
WPU momentum
−5%
last 3 months $363/day vs prior 3 $381/day
Seasonality
September peak
strongest September ($66,203 avg) · softest February ($51,274 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±18% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Empire Gaming, LLC

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

Locations
68
Avg NTI / Location
$44,869
Avg NTI / Terminal
$7,388
Total NTI
$3,051,114

Year over year

Your NTI is +8% up year over year, outpacing the Lake County market (+3%).

Your Location
+8%
$761,348 vs $708,011 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Lake County)
+3%
typical Location: $38,533 vs $37,291

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $13,040 in June 2026 — the 93rd percentile of 8,597 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 North Chicago, that's #2 of 29 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 11.4% — above the 9.4% state median. 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 2.17× 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 floor health for both sides.
•High play · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your floor is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.
•After $27,384 in gaming tax, June 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $25,428 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service, not money.
•Recent momentum is building — +8% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Empire Gaming, LLC runs 68 Locations in our data.
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Full June 2026 report detail
Amount played
$689,023
Amount won
$610,784
Net wager
$78,239
Funds in
$317,803
Funds out
$239,562
Net terminal income
$78,241
NTI tax
$27,384
State share
$23,468
Municipality share
$3,916

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