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CAFE PARLAY WHEELING

Wheeling · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 240701392 · Operator: LS Gaming LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +10%YoY +42%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$97,978
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$527
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$903,564
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$16,330
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
97th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#6 of 27 in Wheeling
Hold
12.2%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
88th pct of 8,611 IL locations
93rd pct of 27 in Wheeling
Cycle rate
2.49×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
37th pct of 8,611 IL locations
56th pct of 27 in Wheeling
Play / machine
$134.4K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
92nd pct of 8,611 IL locations
74th pct of 27 in Wheeling

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$11,220/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
$97,978
Gaming tax
−$34,292
After tax
$63,686
Your take-home
$31,843
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$34,292 · 35%Operator's 50%$31,843 · 32%Yours, 50%$31,843 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $31,843 to you and $31,843 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

High play · high hold

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

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

NTI/machine — 97th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Wheeling — #6 of 27 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 96th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Wheeling peers26 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Wheeling peer (anonymized) statewide median

1 peer location sits beyond the axis range and is drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Wheeling 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 $97,978
2024
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Wheeling median ($45,213) shown, left out of rankings
Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.49× · 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 $527 · Wheeling median $243
your WPU (per machine, per day) Wheeling median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 12.2% · 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.

This year against last, by monthAugust 2026 up 42% 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 +39% this year vs +8% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

Wheeling's total gaming income is +26% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +42% 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)
$527/day
per machine · per day · Wheeling median $243/day · +117%
WPU momentum
+11%
last 3 months $439/day vs prior 3 $395/day
Seasonality
August peak
strongest August ($83,460 avg) · softest April ($31,283 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±16% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

LS 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
22
Avg NTI / Location
$48,886
Avg NTI / Terminal
$8,210
Total NTI
$1,075,492

Year over year

Your NTI is +42% up year over year, outpacing the Cook County market (+5%).

Your Location
+42%
$97,978 vs $68,942 (vs a year ago)
The market (Cook County)
+5%
typical Location: $42,503 vs $40,673

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $16,330 in August 2026 — the 97th 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 Wheeling, that's #6 of 27 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 12.2% — above the 9.4% state median. 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 2.49× 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.
•High play · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.
•After $34,292 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $31,843 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +10% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator LS Gaming LLC runs 22 Locations in our data.
You're ahead of your market.

A gameset doing these numbers is the one Operators compete hardest for — and most owners never find out what that competition is worth, because they never put it out to bid.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$806,111
Amount won
$708,133
Net wager
$97,978
Funds in
$323,099
Funds out
$225,121
Net terminal income
$97,978
NTI tax
$34,292
State share
$29,389
Municipality share
$4,904

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