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Crete · Will County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 250701526 · Operator: Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · high holdMomentum +26%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$43,648
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$242
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$523,776
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$7,275
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
74th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#8 of 21 in Crete
Hold
9.5%
this month
state median 9.4% · above
52nd pct of 8,629 IL locations
43rd pct of 21 in Crete
Cycle rate
2.18×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
8th pct of 8,629 IL locations
7th pct of 21 in Crete
Play / machine
$76.5K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
73rd pct of 8,629 IL locations
76th pct of 21 in Crete

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$2,286/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
$43,648
Gaming tax
−$15,277
After tax
$28,371
Your take-home
$14,186
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$15,277 · 35%Operator's 50%$14,186 · 32%Yours, 50%$14,186 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $14,186 to you and $14,186 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 · high hold

Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.

What an operator sees: An operator reads this as a proven, high-value gameset and will compete hard on service to win it.

NTI/machine — 74th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Crete — #8 of 21 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 69th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Crete peers20 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Crete 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 Crete 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 $43,648
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Crete median ($31,773)

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

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.18× · 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 $242 · Crete median $177
your WPU (per machine, per day) Crete median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 9.5% · 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

Crete's total gaming income is +19% 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)
$242/day
per machine · per day · Crete median $177/day · +37%
WPU momentum
+32%
last 3 months $209/day vs prior 3 $159/day
Revenue steadiness
variable
±21% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Accel Entertainment 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
2,679
Avg NTI / Location
$28,734
Avg NTI / Terminal
$4,975
Total NTI
$76,978,768

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $7,275 in September 2026 — the 74th 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 Crete, that's #8 of 21 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 9.5% — 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 2.18× 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 · high hold — Strong demand and a healthy hold — your gameset is doing well on both the traffic and the margin side.
•After $15,277 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $14,186 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is building — +26% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Accel Entertainment Gaming, LLC runs 2679 Locations in our data.
You're ahead of your market.

A gameset doing these numbers is the one Operators compete hardest for — and most owners never find out what that competition is worth, because they never put it out to bid.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$459,260
Amount won
$415,612
Net wager
$43,648
Funds in
$210,890
Funds out
$167,242
Net terminal income
$43,648
NTI tax
$15,277
State share
$13,092
Municipality share
$2,185

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