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Hoffman Estates · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 230700497 · Operator: Empire Gaming, LLC (as of June 2026)
High play · high holdMomentum −8%YoY −1%

Your performance · June 2026

NTI
$42,193
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$234
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$542,538
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$7,032
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,132/mo
73rd pct of 8,597 IL floors
#18 of 30 in Hoffman Estates
Hold
10.0%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
61st pct of 8,597 IL floors
57th pct of 30 in Hoffman Estates
Cycle rate
2.28×
this month
state median 2.61× · engagement
13th pct of 8,597 IL floors
30th pct of 30 in Hoffman Estates
Play / machine
$70.6K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.2K/mo
70th pct of 8,597 IL floors
47th pct of 30 in Hoffman Estates

Against floors your size (6+ terminals, 6,745 of them), your NTI/machine is +$2,077/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
$42,193
Gaming tax
$14,767
After tax
$27,425
Your take-home
$13,713
your 50% this month

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $13,713 to you and $13,713 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 — 73rd percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors this month
In Hoffman Estates — #18 of 30 floors by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among floors your size (6+ terminals) — 67th percentile of 6,745
The Floor — you among your Hoffman Estates peers29 peer floors
play per machine →
your floor a Hoffman Estates 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 Hoffman Estates 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 $54,470
2023
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Hoffman Estates median ($45,605)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.28× · 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 $234 · Hoffman Estates median $253
your WPU (per machine, per day) Hoffman Estates median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 10.0% · 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 +17% this year vs −6% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Hoffman Estates's total gaming income is +1% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own floor is −1% 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)
$234/day
per machine · per day · Hoffman Estates median $253/day · −7%
At the Hoffman Estates median this floor would add roughly $40,949 a year.
WPU momentum
−3%
last 3 months $227/day vs prior 3 $233/day
Seasonality
April peak
strongest April ($46,798 avg) · softest January ($28,870 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±18% 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 +11% up year over year, outpacing the Cook County market (+4%).

Your Location
+11%
$542,538 vs $489,574 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+4%
typical Location: $42,080 vs $40,475

Takeaways

Each terminal earned about $7,032 in June 2026 — the 73rd 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 Hoffman Estates, that's #18 of 30 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 10.0% — 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 2.28× 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 $14,767 in gaming tax, June 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $13,713 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service, not money.
Recent momentum is softening — −8% against your trailing average.
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Full June 2026 report detail
Amount played
$423,750
Amount won
$381,558
Net wager
$42,193
Funds in
$186,214
Funds out
$144,022
Net terminal income
$42,193
NTI tax
$14,767
State share
$12,656
Municipality share
$2,112

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

GIA'S — gaming performance, Hoffman Estates, Cook County, IL — The Gameset