Skip to main content
IL
← Look up another Location

North Chicago Development, Limited

North Chicago · IL · 4 terminals
IGB license 200700811
Download the one-pager (PDF)
Room to growMomentum −4%YoY +95%

Your performance · September 2022

NTI
$11,296
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$94
per machine · per day
Terminals
4
machines in service
Annual NTI
$123,102
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$2,824
monthly · per terminal
state median $3,750/mo
38th pct of 7,936 IL locations
#19 of 27 in North Chicago
Hold
8.5%
this month
state median 8.7% · below
47th pct of 7,936 IL locations
41st pct of 27 in North Chicago
Cycle rate
2.95×
this month
state median 2.97× · engagement
47th pct of 7,936 IL locations
85th pct of 27 in North Chicago
Play / machine
$33.1K
monthly · per terminal
state median $44.0K/mo
38th pct of 7,936 IL locations
33rd pct of 27 in North Chicago

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 2,283 of them), your NTI/machine is +$708/mo vs the $2,116 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (September 2022)

NTI this month
$11,296
Gaming tax
−$3,840
After tax
$7,455
Your take-home
$3,728
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$3,840 · 34%Operator's 50%$3,728 · 33%Yours, 50%$3,728 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,728 to you and $3,728 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

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 gameset where a real service upgrade has room to move the numbers.

NTI/machine — 38th percentile of 7,936 Illinois locations this month
In North Chicago — #19 of 27 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 64th percentile of 2,283
Your gameset — you among your North Chicago peers26 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a North Chicago 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 North Chicago 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 $22,665
2021
2022
latest month up vs prior down vs prior North Chicago median ($22,665) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.95× · state median 2.97×
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 $94 · North Chicago median $126
your WPU (per machine, per day) North Chicago median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.5% · state median 8.7%
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 2022 up 95% on a year earlier
October 2021 – September 2022Oct 2020 – September 2021

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 −12% this year vs −9% 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 +14% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +95% 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)
$94/day
per machine · per day · North Chicago median $126/day · −25%
At the North Chicago median this gameset would add roughly $45,778 a year.
WPU momentum
−25%
last 3 months $90/day vs prior 3 $120/day
Seasonality
April peak
strongest April ($13,022 avg) · softest February ($2,731 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±47% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Year over year

Your NTI is +95% up year over year.

Your Location
+95%
$11,296 vs $5,800 (vs a year ago)
The market
Not enough county history

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $2,824 in September 2022 — the 38th percentile of 7,936 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 North Chicago, that's #19 of 27 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 8.5% — below the 8.7% 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 2.95× 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.
•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 $3,840 in gaming tax, September 2022's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,728 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −4% against your trailing average.
There's headroom in these numbers.

Operators bid on what they'd put in your gameset — newer cabinets, better titles, faster fixes. We'll turn your profile into an anonymized Listing they compete on.

Create your Listing
Full September 2022 report detail
Amount played
$132,348
Amount won
$121,053
Net wager
$11,295
Funds in
$44,922
Funds out
$33,626
Net terminal income
$11,296
NTI tax
$3,840
State share
$3,276
Municipality share
$565

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