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BUFFALO WILD WINGS

Chicago Ridge · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 250701232 · Operator: Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC
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Efficient gameset

Your performance · July 2026

NTI
$7,631
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$41
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$91,569
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$1,272
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,328/mo
13th pct of 8,564 IL locations
#25 of 28 in Chicago Ridge
Hold
22.2%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
100th pct of 8,564 IL locations
100th pct of 28 in Chicago Ridge
Cycle rate
2.08×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
4th pct of 8,564 IL locations
11th pct of 28 in Chicago Ridge
Play / machine
$5.7K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.5K/mo
3rd pct of 8,564 IL locations
2nd pct of 28 in Chicago Ridge

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,753 of them), your NTI/machine is −$3,929/mo vs the $5,201 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (July 2026)

NTI this month
$7,631
Gaming tax
−$2,671
After tax
$4,960
Your take-home
$2,480
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$2,671 · 35%Operator's 50%$2,480 · 32%Yours, 50%$2,480 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $2,480 to you and $2,480 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

Efficient gameset

You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.

What an operator sees: An operator sees a well-run, efficient gameset — attractive, with upside if foot traffic can be grown.

NTI/machine — 13th percentile of 8,564 Illinois locations this month
In Chicago Ridge — #25 of 28 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 8th percentile of 6,753
Your gameset — you among your Chicago Ridge peers27 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Chicago Ridge peer (anonymized) statewide median

Each gray dot is another Chicago Ridge 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 $27,334
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Chicago Ridge median ($27,334)

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

Your town's market

Chicago Ridge's total gaming income is −2% 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)
$41/day
per machine · per day · Chicago Ridge median $147/day · −72%
At the Chicago Ridge median this gameset would add roughly $236,443 a year.

Your operator

Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC
Locations
2,667
Avg NTI / Location
$29,872
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,173
Total NTI
$79,668,060

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $1,272 in July 2026 — the 13th percentile of 8,564 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 Chicago Ridge, that's #25 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 22.2% — above the 9.4% state median. 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 2.08× 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.
•Efficient gameset — You earn a strong hold from steady traffic — the lever here is drawing more play, not squeezing the machines.
•After $2,671 in gaming tax, July 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $2,480 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC runs 2667 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full July 2026 report detail
Amount played
$34,312
Amount won
$26,681
Net wager
$7,631
Funds in
$16,482
Funds out
$8,851
Net terminal income
$7,631
NTI tax
$2,671
State share
$2,289
Municipality share
$382

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

BUFFALO WILD WINGS — gaming performance, Chicago Ridge, Cook County, IL — The Gameset