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Union Bar & Grill

Tinley Park · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 200701232 · Operator: T's Gaming, LLC (as of May 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum −19%YoY −41%

Your performance · May 2026

NTI
$43,978
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$236
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$739,885
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$7,330
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,575/mo
70th pct of 8,560 IL locations
#20 of 42 in Tinley Park
Hold
9.6%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
54th pct of 8,560 IL locations
64th pct of 42 in Tinley Park
Cycle rate
3.06×
this month
state median 2.62× · engagement
90th pct of 8,560 IL locations
93rd pct of 42 in Tinley Park
Play / machine
$76.4K
monthly · per terminal
state median $49.4K/mo
69th pct of 8,560 IL locations
45th pct of 42 in Tinley Park

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,698 of them), your NTI/machine is +$1,850/mo vs the $5,480 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (May 2026)

NTI this month
$43,978
Gaming tax
−$15,392
After tax
$28,586
Your take-home
$14,293
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$15,392 · 35%Operator's 50%$14,293 · 32%Yours, 50%$14,293 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $14,293 to you and $14,293 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 — 70th percentile of 8,560 Illinois locations this month
In Tinley Park — #20 of 42 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 64th percentile of 6,698
Your gameset — you among your Tinley Park peers41 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Tinley Park 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 Tinley 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 $85,482
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Tinley Park median ($38,300)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 3.06× · state median 2.62×
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 $236 · Tinley Park median $206
your WPU (per machine, per day) Tinley Park median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.6% · 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 monthMay 2026 down 41% on a year earlier
June 2025 – May 2026June 2024 – May 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: April → May moved −21% this year vs −13% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Tinley Park's total gaming income is +12% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is −41% 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)
$236/day
per machine · per day · Tinley Park median $206/day · +15%
WPU momentum
−22%
last 3 months $278/day vs prior 3 $358/day
Seasonality
March peak
strongest March ($67,886 avg) · softest July ($51,821 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±14% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

T's Gaming, LLC

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

Locations
101
Avg NTI / Location
$33,340
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,866
Total NTI
$3,367,322

Year over year

Your NTI is −11% down year over year, trailing the Cook County market (+3%).

Your Location
−11%
$739,885 vs $830,180 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+3%
typical Location: $41,835 vs $40,447

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $7,330 in May 2026 — the 70th percentile of 8,560 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 Tinley Park, that's #20 of 42 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 9.6% — 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 3.06× 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 $15,392 in gaming tax, May 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $14,293 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −19% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator T's Gaming, LLC runs 101 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 May 2026 report detail
Amount played
$458,489
Amount won
$414,511
Net wager
$43,978
Funds in
$149,796
Funds out
$105,818
Net terminal income
$43,978
NTI tax
$15,392
State share
$13,191
Municipality share
$2,201

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