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Cook County · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals

IGB license 210702512 · Operator: Elite Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)

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High play · high holdMomentum +18%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI

$34,460

net terminal income · this month

Win per unit

$185

per machine · per day

Terminals

machines in service

Annualized NTI

$413,515

est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine

$5,743

monthly · per terminal

state median $4,345/mo

62nd pct of 8,611 IL locations

#33 of 45 in Cook County

Hold

11.2%

this month

state median 9.4% · above

80th pct of 8,611 IL locations

76th pct of 45 in Cook County

Cycle rate

2.18×

this month

state median 2.60× · engagement

8th pct of 8,611 IL locations

10th pct of 45 in Cook County

Play / machine

$51.3K

monthly · per terminal

state median $47.1K/mo

54th pct of 8,611 IL locations

24th pct of 45 in Cook County

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$634/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

$34,460

Gaming tax

−$12,061

After tax

$22,399

Your take-home

$11,199

your 50% this month

Gaming tax$12,061 · 35%Operator's 50%$11,199 · 32%Yours, 50%$11,199 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $11,199 to you and $11,199 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 — 62nd percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month

In Cook County — #33 of 45 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)

Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 55th percentile of 6,794

Your gameset — you among your Cook County peers44 peer locations

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your gameset a Cook County 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 Cook 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 $57,912

2026

latest month up vs prior down vs prior Cook County median ($57,912)

5 months loaded — partial history. The trend fills in as more monthly IGB reports are imported.

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.18× · 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 $185 · Cook County median $341

your WPU (per machine, per day) Cook County median WPU

Hold % by monthlatest 11.2% · 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.

Your town's market

Cook County's total gaming income is +11% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

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)

$185/day

per machine · per day · Cook County median $341/day · −46%

At the Cook County median this gameset would add roughly $347,316 a year.

Your operator

Elite 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

Avg NTI / Location

$46,878

Avg NTI / Terminal

$7,813

Total NTI

$2,953,297

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,743 in August 2026 — the 62nd 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 Cook County, that's #33 of 45 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 11.2% — 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 2.18× 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 $12,061 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $11,199 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.

•Recent momentum is building — +18% against your trailing average.

•Terminal Operator Elite Gaming, LLC runs 63 Locations in our data.

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Full August 2026 report detail

Amount played

$307,610

Amount won

$273,150

Net wager

$34,459

Funds in

$141,027

Funds out

$106,567

Net terminal income

$34,460

NTI tax

$12,061

State share

$10,336

Municipality share

$1,725

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