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ROUTE 53 CAFE

DuPage County · DuPage County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 240702080 · Operator: Lattner Entertainment Group Illinois, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum −11%YoY +8%3-month NTI decline

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$25,017
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$139
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annual NTI
$419,571
trailing 12 months

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$4,170
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
50th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#24 of 28 in DuPage County
Hold
5.2%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
5th pct of 8,629 IL locations
4th pct of 28 in DuPage County
Cycle rate
1.74×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
1st pct of 8,629 IL locations
2nd pct of 28 in DuPage County
Play / machine
$80.4K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
75th pct of 8,629 IL locations
57th pct of 28 in DuPage County

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is −$819/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
$25,017
Gaming tax
−$8,756
After tax
$16,261
Your take-home
$8,131
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$8,756 · 35%Operator's 50%$8,131 · 33%Yours, 50%$8,131 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $8,131 to you and $8,131 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 — 50th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In DuPage County — #24 of 28 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 42nd percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your DuPage County peers27 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a DuPage County 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 DuPage County 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 $55,589
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior DuPage County median ($43,994)
Cycle rate by monthlatest 1.74× · 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 $139 · DuPage County median $244
your WPU (per machine, per day) DuPage County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 5.2% · 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 monthSeptember 2026 up 8% on a year earlier
October 2025 – September 2026Oct 2024 – September 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: August → September moved −36% this year vs −37% a year ago — so a normal seasonal dip isn't mistaken for a real decline.

Your town's market

DuPage County's total gaming income is +9% year over year (trailing 3 months vs the same 3 a year ago).

Your own gameset is +8% over the same-month-last-year comparison — the town's tide explains part of the move; it isn't all your gameset.

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)
$139/day
per machine · per day · DuPage County median $244/day · −43%
At the DuPage County median this gameset would add roughly $227,720 a year.
WPU momentum
−12%
last 3 months $196/day vs prior 3 $222/day
Seasonality
June peak
strongest June ($46,761 avg) · softest December ($22,963 avg)
Revenue steadiness
variable
±26% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Lattner Entertainment Group Illinois, 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
196
Avg NTI / Location
$19,978
Avg NTI / Terminal
$3,649
Total NTI
$3,915,649

Year over year

Your NTI is +8% up year over year, outpacing the DuPage County market (+6%).

Your Location
+8%
$25,017 vs $23,221 (vs a year ago)
The market (DuPage County)
+6%
typical Location: $46,792 vs $44,075

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $4,170 in September 2026 — the 50th 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 DuPage County, that's #24 of 28 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 5.2% — 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 1.74× 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 $8,756 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $8,131 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Heads-up: NTI has slipped three months running. Worth a look — it can be seasonal (check the year-ago comparison), or a sign the gameset is due for fresher titles or better service.
•Terminal Operator Lattner Entertainment Group Illinois, LLC runs 196 Locations in our data.
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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$482,640
Amount won
$457,623
Net wager
$25,017
Funds in
$277,614
Funds out
$252,596
Net terminal income
$25,017
NTI tax
$8,756
State share
$7,504
Municipality share
$1,252

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