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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 +10%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$33,304
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$185
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$399,653
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,551
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
62nd pct of 8,629 IL locations
#19 of 27 in Carol Stream
Hold
8.1%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
26th pct of 8,629 IL locations
19th pct of 27 in Carol Stream
Cycle rate
2.54×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
42nd pct of 8,629 IL locations
50th pct of 27 in Carol Stream
Play / machine
$68.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
68th pct of 8,629 IL locations
50th pct of 27 in Carol Stream

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$562/mo vs the $4,988 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (September 2026)

NTI this month
$33,304
Gaming tax
−$11,657
After tax
$21,648
Your take-home
$10,824
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$11,657 · 35%Operator's 50%$10,824 · 32%Yours, 50%$10,824 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,824 to you and $10,824 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 — 62nd percentile of 8,629 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) — 55th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Carol Stream peers26 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Carol Stream 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 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 $41,512
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Carol Stream median ($37,749)

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

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.54× · state median 2.59×
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 $185 · Carol Stream median $210
your WPU (per machine, per day) Carol Stream median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.1% · 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 +12% 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)
$185/day
per machine · per day · Carol Stream median $210/day · −12%
At the Carol Stream median this gameset would add roughly $53,336 a year.
WPU momentum
−3%
last 3 months $185/day vs prior 3 $191/day
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±43% 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
2,571
Avg NTI / Location
$31,971
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,578
Total NTI
$82,196,548

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,551 in September 2026 — the 62nd percentile of 8,629 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 8.1% — 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 2.54× 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 $11,657 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,824 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 J&J Ventures Gaming, LLC runs 2571 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$412,893
Amount won
$379,589
Net wager
$33,304
Funds in
$162,858
Funds out
$129,554
Net terminal income
$33,304
NTI tax
$11,657
State share
$9,990
Municipality share
$1,667

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