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Main Street Town Incorporated

Round Lake Park · Lake County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 210701797 · Operator: Lucky Lincoln Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum −13%YoY −17%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$31,857
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$171
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$456,603
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,310
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
59th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#204 of 385 in Lake County
Hold
8.7%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
36th pct of 8,611 IL locations
37th pct of 385 in Lake County
Cycle rate
2.61×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
51st pct of 8,611 IL locations
67th pct of 385 in Lake County
Play / machine
$61.2K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
62nd pct of 8,611 IL locations
50th pct of 385 in Lake County

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$200/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
$31,857
Gaming tax
−$11,150
After tax
$20,707
Your take-home
$10,354
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$11,150 · 35%Operator's 50%$10,354 · 32%Yours, 50%$10,354 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,354 to you and $10,354 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 · lower hold

Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.

What an operator sees: An operator sees busy machines with margin headroom — a gameset where better titles and merchandising pay off.

NTI/machine — 59th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Lake County — #204 of 385 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 52nd percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Lake County peers384 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Lake County peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Lake County 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 $54,994
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Lake County median ($33,053)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.61× · 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 $171 · Lake County median $181
your WPU (per machine, per day) Lake County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.7% · 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 17% 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 +9% this year vs −5% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

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

Your own gameset is −17% 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)
$171/day
per machine · per day · Lake County median $181/day · −5%
At the Lake County median this gameset would add roughly $22,059 a year.
WPU momentum
−15%
last 3 months $183/day vs prior 3 $215/day
Seasonality
September peak
strongest September ($41,702 avg) · softest October ($31,296 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±14% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Lucky Lincoln Gaming, LLC

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
245
Avg NTI / Location
$38,898
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,637
Total NTI
$9,530,097

Year over year

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

Your Location
−3%
$456,603 vs $470,105 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Lake County)
+3%
typical Location: $38,736 vs $37,626

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,310 in August 2026 — the 59th 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 Lake County, that's #204 of 385 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 8.7% — below the 9.4% 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 2.61× 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 · lower hold — Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
•After $11,150 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,354 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −13% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Lucky Lincoln Gaming, LLC runs 245 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$367,344
Amount won
$335,487
Net wager
$31,857
Funds in
$140,758
Funds out
$108,901
Net terminal income
$31,857
NTI tax
$11,150
State share
$9,556
Municipality share
$1,594

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

Main Street Town Incorporated — gaming performance, Round Lake Park, Lake County, IL — The Gameset