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The Original Nick's Pizza and Beef, Inc

Bellwood · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 250701114 · Operator: T's Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower hold

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$32,773
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$182
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$393,282
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,462
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
61st pct of 8,629 IL locations
#780 of 1420 in Cook County
Hold
7.3%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
17th pct of 8,629 IL locations
12th pct of 1,420 in Cook County
Cycle rate
2.13×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
6th pct of 8,629 IL locations
9th pct of 1,420 in Cook County
Play / machine
$74.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
72nd pct of 8,629 IL locations
57th pct of 1,420 in Cook County

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$474/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
$32,773
Gaming tax
−$11,471
After tax
$21,303
Your take-home
$10,651
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$11,471 · 35%Operator's 50%$10,651 · 33%Yours, 50%$10,651 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,651 to you and $10,651 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 — 61st percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Cook County — #780 of 1420 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 54th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Cook County peers500 peer locations (sampled from 1,419)
play per machine →
your gameset a Cook County peer (anonymized) statewide median

14 peer locations sit beyond the axis range and are drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Cook 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 $35,537
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Cook County median ($35,537)

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

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.13× · 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 $182 · Cook County median $204
your WPU (per machine, per day) Cook County median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 7.3% · 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

Bellwood's total gaming income is +1% 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)
$182/day
per machine · per day · Cook County median $204/day · −11%
At the Cook County median this gameset would add roughly $47,730 a year.

Your operator

T's 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
101
Avg NTI / Location
$31,947
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,612
Total NTI
$3,226,687

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,462 in September 2026 — the 61st 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 Cook County, that's #780 of 1420 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 7.3% — 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 2.13× 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 $11,471 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $10,651 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator T's Gaming, LLC runs 101 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$448,547
Amount won
$415,773
Net wager
$32,773
Funds in
$210,246
Funds out
$177,472
Net terminal income
$32,773
NTI tax
$11,471
State share
$9,830
Municipality share
$1,640

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

The Original Nick's Pizza and Beef, Inc — gaming performance, Bellwood, Cook County, IL — The Gameset