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Melrose Park · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 230702580 · Operator: Lucky Day LLC (as of June 2026)
High play · lower holdMomentum −3%YoY +11%3-month NTI decline

Your performance · June 2026

NTI
$58,817
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$327
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$767,396
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$9,803
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,132/mo
85th pct of 8,597 IL floors
#12 of 38 in Melrose Park
Hold
8.2%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
29th pct of 8,597 IL floors
26th pct of 38 in Melrose Park
Cycle rate
2.30×
this month
state median 2.61× · engagement
15th pct of 8,597 IL floors
32nd pct of 38 in Melrose Park
Play / machine
$119.0K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.2K/mo
90th pct of 8,597 IL floors
86th pct of 38 in Melrose Park

Against floors your size (6+ terminals, 6,745 of them), your NTI/machine is +$4,848/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
$58,817
Gaming tax
−$20,586
After tax
$38,231
Your take-home
$19,116
your 50% this month

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $19,116 to you and $19,116 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 · lower hold

Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.

What an operator sees: An operator sees busy machines with margin headroom — a floor where better titles and merchandising pay off.

NTI/machine — 85th percentile of 8,597 Illinois floors this month
In Melrose Park — #12 of 38 floors by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among floors your size (6+ terminals) — 82nd percentile of 6,745
The Floor — you among your Melrose Park peers37 peer floors
play per machine →
your floor a Melrose Park 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 Melrose Park 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 $82,156
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Melrose Park median ($30,843)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.30× · 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 $327 · Melrose Park median $174
your WPU (per machine, per day) Melrose Park median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.2% · 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 −20% this year vs +8% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Melrose Park's total gaming income is +2% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own floor is +11% 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 floor.

Win per unit (WPU)
$327/day
per machine · per day · Melrose Park median $174/day · +88%
WPU momentum
+1%
last 3 months $393/day vs prior 3 $388/day
Seasonality
October peak
strongest October ($65,368 avg) · softest September ($32,970 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±21% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Lucky Day 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
35
Avg NTI / Location
$55,335
Avg NTI / Terminal
$9,311
Total NTI
$1,936,725

Year over year

Your NTI is +31% up year over year, outpacing the Cook County market (+4%).

Your Location
+31%
$767,396 vs $584,811 (last 12 months vs the prior 12)
The market (Cook County)
+4%
typical Location: $42,080 vs $40,475

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $9,803 in June 2026 — the 85th 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 Melrose Park, that's #12 of 38 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 8.2% — below the 9.4% state median, which a stronger game mix could recover. 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 2.30× 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 · lower hold — Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
•After $20,586 in gaming tax, June 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $19,116 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service, not money.
•Heads-up: NTI has slipped three months running. Worth a look — it can be seasonal (check the year-ago comparison), or a sign the floor is due for fresher titles or better service.
•Terminal Operator Lucky Day LLC runs 35 Locations in our data.
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Full June 2026 report detail
Amount played
$714,158
Amount won
$655,344
Net wager
$58,814
Funds in
$310,427
Funds out
$251,609
Net terminal income
$58,817
NTI tax
$20,586
State share
$17,642
Municipality share
$2,944

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