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MELROSE MARATHON

Melrose Park · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 250700793 · Operator: Empire Gaming, LLC
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Low-volume month. September 2026 had under $10K played — likely a partial month or a new license — so it's shown but left out of rankings.

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$322
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$2
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$3,858
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$54
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
Hold
4.2%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
Cycle rate
2.71×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
Play / machine
$1.3K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo

Where the money goes (September 2026)

NTI this month
$322
Gaming tax
−$113
After tax
$209
Your take-home
$105
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$113 · 35%Operator's 50%$104 · 32%Yours, 50%$105 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $105 to you and $104 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

Trend

Net terminal income by monthpeak $33,591
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Melrose Park median ($33,591) shown, left out of rankings

One month loaded so far. The trend fills in as more monthly IGB reports are imported.

Your town's market

Melrose Park's total gaming income is +11% 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)
$2/day
per machine · per day · Melrose Park median $187/day · −99%
At the Melrose Park median this gameset would add roughly $399,234 a year.

Your operator

Empire Gaming, LLC
Locations
69
Avg NTI / Location
$42,247
Avg NTI / Terminal
$7,041
Total NTI
$2,915,037

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $54 in September 2026. Per-terminal NTI is the number operators judge a gameset by, because it strips out how many machines you run.
•Hold — the share of money played that the gameset keeps — was 4.2% — 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 2.71× 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.
•After $113 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $105 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Empire Gaming, LLC runs 69 Locations in our data.
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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$7,634
Amount won
$7,312
Net wager
$322
Funds in
$2,813
Funds out
$2,491
Net terminal income
$322
NTI tax
$113
State share
$96
Municipality share
$16

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

MELROSE MARATHON — gaming performance, Melrose Park, Cook County, IL — The Gameset