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LYRIC THEATER

Blue Island · Cook County · IL · 5 terminals
IGB license 220701574 · Operator: Eureka Entertainment, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to growMomentum +4%YoY +64%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$14,021
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$90
per machine · per day
Terminals
5
machines in service
Annual NTI
$168,892
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$2,804
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
33rd pct of 8,611 IL locations
#19 of 33 in Blue Island
Hold
8.4%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
31st pct of 8,611 IL locations
36th pct of 33 in Blue Island
Cycle rate
2.42×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
28th pct of 8,611 IL locations
30th pct of 33 in Blue Island
Play / machine
$33.4K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
36th pct of 8,611 IL locations
50th pct of 33 in Blue Island

Against locations your size (4–5 terminals, 1,547 of them), your NTI/machine is +$564/mo vs the $2,240 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
$14,021
Gaming tax
−$4,907
After tax
$9,114
Your take-home
$4,557
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$4,907 · 35%Operator's 50%$4,557 · 32%Yours, 50%$4,557 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $4,557 to you and $4,557 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

Room to grow

Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.

What an operator sees: An operator sees upside: a gameset where a real service upgrade has room to move the numbers.

NTI/machine — 33rd percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Blue Island — #19 of 33 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (4–5 terminals) — 59th percentile of 1,547
Your gameset — you among your Blue Island peers32 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Blue Island peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Blue Island 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 $21,229
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Blue Island median ($21,229) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.42× · 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 $90 · Blue Island median $114
your WPU (per machine, per day) Blue Island median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.4% · 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 64% 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 −30% this year vs +44% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Blue Island's total gaming income is +7% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +64% 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)
$90/day
per machine · per day · Blue Island median $114/day · −21%
At the Blue Island median this gameset would add roughly $44,045 a year.
WPU momentum
−1%
last 3 months $96/day vs prior 3 $97/day
Seasonality
February peak
strongest February ($13,080 avg) · softest September ($7,035 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±23% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Eureka Entertainment, 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
415
Avg NTI / Location
$23,203
Avg NTI / Terminal
$4,347
Total NTI
$9,629,080

Year over year

Your NTI is +62% up year over year, outpacing the Cook County market (+5%).

Your Location
+62%
$168,892 vs $104,543 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+5%
typical Location: $42,503 vs $40,673

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $2,804 in August 2026 — the 33rd 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 Blue Island, that's #19 of 33 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 8.4% — 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 2.42× 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.
•Room to grow — Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.
•After $4,907 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $4,557 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +4% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Eureka Entertainment, LLC runs 415 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$167,037
Amount won
$153,016
Net wager
$14,021
Funds in
$68,954
Funds out
$54,934
Net terminal income
$14,021
NTI tax
$4,907
State share
$4,206
Municipality share
$702

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