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Elsie's Place Cafe

Carol Stream · DuPage County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 240701833 · Operator: J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum +16%

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$37,154
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$200
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$445,851
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$6,192
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
65th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#19 of 27 in Carol Stream
Hold
8.8%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
39th pct of 8,611 IL locations
37th pct of 27 in Carol Stream
Cycle rate
2.42×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
27th pct of 8,611 IL locations
33rd pct of 27 in Carol Stream
Play / machine
$70.3K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
68th pct of 8,611 IL locations
41st pct of 27 in Carol Stream

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is +$1,083/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
$37,154
Gaming tax
−$13,004
After tax
$24,150
Your take-home
$12,075
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$13,004 · 35%Operator's 50%$12,075 · 32%Yours, 50%$12,075 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $12,075 to you and $12,075 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 · 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 gameset where better titles and merchandising pay off.

NTI/machine — 65th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Carol Stream — #19 of 27 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 59th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Carol Stream peers26 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Carol Stream 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 Carol Stream 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 $46,383
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Carol Stream median ($46,383)

10 months loaded — partial history. The trend fills in as more monthly IGB reports are imported.

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.42× · 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 $200 · Carol Stream median $249
your WPU (per machine, per day) Carol Stream median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.8% · 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.

Your town's market

Carol Stream's total gaming income is +14% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

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)
$200/day
per machine · per day · Carol Stream median $249/day · −20%
At the Carol Stream median this gameset would add roughly $110,748 a year.
WPU momentum
−9%
last 3 months $170/day vs prior 3 $188/day
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±45% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

J&J Ventures 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
2,551
Avg NTI / Location
$33,097
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,782
Total NTI
$84,429,268

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $6,192 in August 2026 — the 65th 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 Carol Stream, that's #19 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 8.8% — 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 2.42× 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 · lower hold — Plenty of traffic, but the hold runs below the market — the right game mix could turn that demand into more income.
•After $13,004 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $12,075 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +16% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2551 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$421,632
Amount won
$384,478
Net wager
$37,154
Funds in
$174,418
Funds out
$137,264
Net terminal income
$37,154
NTI tax
$13,004
State share
$11,144
Municipality share
$1,860

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