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OAK LAWN DINER

Oak Lawn · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 230702227 · Operator: Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to growMomentum +32%YoY +231%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$9,772
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$53
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$82,884
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$1,629
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
17th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#41 of 44 in Oak Lawn
Hold
6.5%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
11th pct of 8,611 IL locations
5th pct of 44 in Oak Lawn
Cycle rate
2.04×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
4th pct of 8,611 IL locations
0th pct of 44 in Oak Lawn
Play / machine
$25.0K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
26th pct of 8,611 IL locations
11th pct of 44 in Oak Lawn

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is −$3,481/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
$9,772
Gaming tax
−$3,420
After tax
$6,352
Your take-home
$3,176
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$3,420 · 35%Operator's 50%$3,176 · 32%Yours, 50%$3,176 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,176 to you and $3,176 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 — 17th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Oak Lawn — #41 of 44 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 12th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Oak Lawn peers43 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Oak Lawn peer (anonymized) statewide median

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

Each gray dot is another Oak Lawn 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 $46,164
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Oak Lawn median ($46,164) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.04× · 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 $53 · Oak Lawn median $248
your WPU (per machine, per day) Oak Lawn median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 6.5% · 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 231% on a year earlier
September 2025 – August 2026Sep 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 +11% this year vs −65% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

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

Your own gameset is +231% 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)
$53/day
per machine · per day · Oak Lawn median $248/day · −79%
At the Oak Lawn median this gameset would add roughly $436,703 a year.
WPU momentum
+5%
last 3 months $42/day vs prior 3 $40/day
Seasonality
October peak
strongest October ($13,278 avg) · softest March ($1,351 avg)
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±51% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Accel Entertainment 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
2,677
Avg NTI / Location
$29,789
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,160
Total NTI
$79,746,194

Year over year

Your NTI is +231% up year over year, outpacing the Cook County market (+5%).

Your Location
+231%
$9,772 vs $2,949 (vs a year ago)
The market (Cook County)
+5%
typical Location: $42,503 vs $40,673

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $1,629 in August 2026 — the 17th 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 Oak Lawn, that's #41 of 44 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 6.5% — 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 2.04× 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 $3,420 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,176 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +32% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC runs 2677 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$149,781
Amount won
$140,008
Net wager
$9,772
Funds in
$73,331
Funds out
$63,559
Net terminal income
$9,772
NTI tax
$3,420
State share
$2,931
Municipality share
$489

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