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CHESTER'S TAVERN

Summit · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 220702268 · Operator: Empire Gaming, LLC (as of June 2026)
High play · high holdMomentum +11%YoY −2%

Your performance · June 2026

NTI
$52,678
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$293
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$606,072
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$8,780
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,132/mo
82nd pct of 8,597 IL floors
#11 of 28 in Summit
Hold
10.4%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
70th pct of 8,597 IL floors
64th pct of 28 in Summit
Cycle rate
2.48×
this month
state median 2.61× · engagement
33rd pct of 8,597 IL floors
32nd pct of 28 in Summit
Play / machine
$84.1K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.2K/mo
77th pct of 8,597 IL floors
61st pct of 28 in Summit

Against floors your size (6+ terminals, 6,745 of them), your NTI/machine is +$3,824/mo vs the $4,955 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (June 2026)

NTI this month
$52,678
Gaming tax
$18,437
After tax
$34,241
Your take-home
$17,120
your 50% this month

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $17,120 to you and $17,120 to your operator this month. Neither side can move that split. That's the whole point of The Gameset: since the money is set by statute, operators compete for your floor on service — games, cabinets, refresh cadence, response time — not on dollars.

Where your floor stands

High play · high hold

Strong demand and a healthy hold — your floor is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.

What an operator sees: An operator reads this as a proven, high-value floor and will compete hard on service to win it.

NTI/machine — 82nd percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors this month
In Summit — #11 of 28 floors by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among floors your size (6+ terminals) — 78th percentile of 6,745
The Floor — you among your Summit peers27 peer floors
play per machine →
your floor a Summit peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each grey dot is another Summit floor 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 $70,030
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Summit median ($42,025)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.48× · state median 2.61×
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 floor health for you and for an operator.

Win per unit by monthlatest $293 · Summit median $248
your WPU (per machine, per day) Summit median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 10.4% · 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.

Seasonality check: May June moved −16% this year vs −13% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

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

Your own floor is −2% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your floor.

A deeper operator read

The same history, cut the way a Terminal Operator cuts it when they decide how hard to compete for your floor.

Win per unit (WPU)
$293/day
per machine · per day · Summit median $248/day · +18%
WPU momentum
+18%
last 3 months $326/day vs prior 3 $277/day
Seasonality
May peak
strongest May ($53,608 avg) · softest February ($33,001 avg)
Revenue steadiness
steady
±15% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Empire Gaming, LLC

Linked to your Location as of June 2026 — the Illinois Gaming Board publishes this each month, so a recent change may not show yet.

Locations
68
Avg NTI / Location
$44,869
Avg NTI / Terminal
$7,388
Total NTI
$3,051,114

Year over year

Your NTI is −9% down year over year, trailing the Cook County market (+4%).

Your Location
−9%
$606,072 vs $666,462 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+4%
typical Location: $42,080 vs $40,475

Takeaways

Each terminal earned about $8,780 in June 2026 — the 82nd percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors that month. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a floor on, because it strips out how many machines you run.
Within Summit, that's #11 of 28 floors 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 floor keeps — was 10.4% — above the 9.4% state median. Hold is driven mostly by the games on the floor, which is exactly what an operator brings to the table.
A dollar cycled through your machines 2.48× 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 floor health for both sides.
High play · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your floor is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.
After $18,437 in gaming tax, June 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $17,120 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service, not money.
Recent momentum is building — +11% against your trailing average.
Terminal Operator Empire Gaming, LLC runs 68 Locations in our data.
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Full June 2026 report detail
Amount played
$504,369
Amount won
$451,691
Net wager
$52,678
Funds in
$203,743
Funds out
$151,065
Net terminal income
$52,678
NTI tax
$18,437
State share
$15,801
Municipality share
$2,637

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

CHESTER'S TAVERN — gaming performance, Summit, Cook County, IL — The Gameset