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River Grove · Cook County · IL · 5 terminals
IGB license 220700740 · Operator: Empire Gaming, LLC (as of September 2025)
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Efficient gamesetMomentum +39%YoY +445%

Your performance · September 2025

NTI
$3,060
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$20
per machine · per day
Terminals
5
machines in service
Annual NTI
$39,339
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$612
monthly · per terminal
state median $3,902/mo
5th pct of 8,563 IL locations
#18 of 18 in River Grove
Hold
9.7%
this month
state median 9.3% · above
57th pct of 8,563 IL locations
78th pct of 18 in River Grove
Cycle rate
2.61×
this month
state median 2.75× · engagement
33rd pct of 8,563 IL locations
28th pct of 18 in River Grove
Play / machine
$6.3K
monthly · per terminal
state median $42.8K/mo
3rd pct of 8,563 IL locations
6th pct of 18 in River Grove

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,716 of them), your NTI/machine is −$1,415/mo vs the $2,027 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (September 2025)

NTI this month
$3,060
Gaming tax
−$1,071
After tax
$1,989
Your take-home
$994
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$1,071 · 35%Operator's 50%$994 · 32%Yours, 50%$994 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $994 to you and $994 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

Efficient gameset

You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.

What an operator sees: An operator sees a well-run, efficient gameset — attractive, with upside if foot traffic can be grown.

NTI/machine — 5th percentile of 8,563 Illinois locations this month
In River Grove — #18 of 18 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 10th percentile of 1,716
Your gameset — you among your River Grove peers17 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a River Grove peer (anonymized) statewide median

1 peer location sits beyond the axis range and is drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another River Grove 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 $48,631
2022
2023
2024
2025
latest month up vs prior down vs prior River Grove median ($48,631) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.61× · state median 2.75×
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 $20 · River Grove median $270
your WPU (per machine, per day) River Grove median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.7% · state median 9.3%
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 2025 up 445% on a year earlier
October 2024 – September 2025October 2023 – September 2024

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 −70% this year vs +76% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

River Grove's total gaming income is +23% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +445% 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)
$20/day
per machine · per day · River Grove median $270/day · −92%
At the River Grove median this gameset would add roughly $449,600 a year.
WPU momentum
+92%
last 3 months $43/day vs prior 3 $22/day
Seasonality
February peak
strongest February ($10,731 avg) · softest April ($5,563 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±90% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Empire Gaming, LLC

Linked to your Location as of September 2025 — the Illinois Gaming Board publishes this each month, so a recent change may not show yet.

Locations
66
Avg NTI / Location
$38,013
Avg NTI / Terminal
$6,336
Total NTI
$2,508,886

Year over year

Your NTI is −59% down year over year, trailing the Cook County market (+1%).

Your Location
−59%
$39,339 vs $97,076 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+1%
typical Location: $40,728 vs $40,301

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $612 in September 2025 — the 5th percentile of 8,563 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 River Grove, that's #18 of 18 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 9.7% — above the 9.3% 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 2.61× 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.
•Efficient gameset — You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.
•After $1,071 in gaming tax, September 2025's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $994 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +39% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Empire Gaming, LLC runs 66 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2025 report detail
Amount played
$31,658
Amount won
$28,515
Net wager
$3,143
Funds in
$12,108
Funds out
$9,049
Net terminal income
$3,060
NTI tax
$1,071
State share
$918
Municipality share
$153

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