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Harwood Convenience

Harwood Heights · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 220701126 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +18%YoY +49%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$50,201
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$270
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$471,456
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$8,367
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
78th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#9 of 15 in Harwood Heights
Hold
10.1%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
63rd pct of 8,611 IL locations
67th pct of 15 in Harwood Heights
Cycle rate
2.64×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
55th pct of 8,611 IL locations
47th pct of 15 in Harwood Heights
Play / machine
$83.1K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
75th pct of 8,611 IL locations
40th pct of 15 in Harwood Heights

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$3,257/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
$50,201
Gaming tax
−$17,570
After tax
$32,631
Your take-home
$16,315
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$17,570 · 35%Operator's 50%$16,315 · 32%Yours, 50%$16,315 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $16,315 to you and $16,315 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 — 78th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Harwood Heights — #9 of 15 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 74th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Harwood Heights peers14 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Harwood Heights peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each gray dot is another Harwood Heights 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 $64,961
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Harwood Heights median ($64,961)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.64× · 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 $270 · Harwood Heights median $349
your WPU (per machine, per day) Harwood Heights median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 10.1% · 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 up 49% 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 −2% this year vs −5% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

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

Your own gameset is +49% 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)
$270/day
per machine · per day · Harwood Heights median $349/day · −23%
At the Harwood Heights median this gameset would add roughly $177,123 a year.
WPU momentum
+30%
last 3 months $253/day vs prior 3 $195/day
Seasonality
August peak
strongest August ($42,400 avg) · softest December ($27,088 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±16% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

J&J Ventures 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
2,551
Avg NTI / Location
$33,097
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,782
Total NTI
$84,429,268

Year over year

Your NTI is +4% up year over year, trailing the Cook County market (+5%).

Your Location
+4%
$471,456 vs $454,798 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+5%
typical Location: $42,503 vs $40,673

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $8,367 in August 2026 — the 78th 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 Harwood Heights, that's #9 of 15 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 10.1% — 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 2.64× 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 $17,570 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $16,315 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 J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2551 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$498,595
Amount won
$448,394
Net wager
$50,201
Funds in
$188,756
Funds out
$138,555
Net terminal income
$50,201
NTI tax
$17,570
State share
$15,058
Municipality share
$2,513

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

Harwood Convenience — gaming performance, Harwood Heights, Cook County, IL — The Gameset