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The Marigold Pekin

Pekin · Tazewell County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 250701599 · Operator: Midwest Electronics Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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High play · lower holdMomentum −8%

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$30,200
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$168
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$362,399
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$5,033
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
58th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#23 of 39 in Pekin
Hold
8.1%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
27th pct of 8,629 IL locations
15th pct of 39 in Pekin
Cycle rate
2.53×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
42nd pct of 8,629 IL locations
27th pct of 39 in Pekin
Play / machine
$61.8K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
63rd pct of 8,629 IL locations
59th pct of 39 in Pekin

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is +$45/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
$30,200
Gaming tax
−$10,570
After tax
$19,630
Your take-home
$9,815
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$10,570 · 35%Operator's 50%$9,815 · 32%Yours, 50%$9,815 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $9,815 to you and $9,815 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 — 58th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Pekin — #23 of 39 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 50th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Pekin peers38 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Pekin 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 Pekin 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 $47,593
2025
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Pekin median ($31,009)

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

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.53× · 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 $168 · Pekin median $177
your WPU (per machine, per day) Pekin median WPU
Hold % by monthlatest 8.1% · 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

Pekin'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)
$168/day
per machine · per day · Pekin median $177/day · −5%
At the Pekin median this gameset would add roughly $19,479 a year.
WPU momentum
−11%
last 3 months $177/day vs prior 3 $198/day
Revenue steadiness
volatile
±35% month-to-month swing, trailing 12

Your operator

Midwest Electronics 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
323
Avg NTI / Location
$28,368
Avg NTI / Terminal
$5,299
Total NTI
$9,162,764

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $5,033 in September 2026 — the 58th 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 Pekin, that's #23 of 39 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 8.1% — 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 2.53× 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 $10,570 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $9,815 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Recent momentum is softening — −8% against your trailing average.
•Terminal Operator Midwest Electronics Gaming, LLC runs 323 Locations in our data.
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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$370,641
Amount won
$340,441
Net wager
$30,200
Funds in
$146,250
Funds out
$116,050
Net terminal income
$30,200
NTI tax
$10,570
State share
$9,058
Municipality share
$1,512

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