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MELROSE MINI MART INC

Melrose Park · Cook County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 250701932 · Operator: Elite Gaming, LLC
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Room to grow

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$11,816
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$66
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$141,793
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$1,969
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
23rd pct of 8,629 IL locations
#35 of 39 in Melrose Park
Hold
9.1%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
44th pct of 8,629 IL locations
33rd pct of 39 in Melrose Park
Cycle rate
2.48×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
35th pct of 8,629 IL locations
51st pct of 39 in Melrose Park
Play / machine
$21.6K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
23rd pct of 8,629 IL locations
21st pct of 39 in Melrose Park

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is −$3,019/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
$11,816
Gaming tax
−$4,136
After tax
$7,680
Your take-home
$3,840
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$4,136 · 35%Operator's 50%$3,840 · 33%Yours, 50%$3,840 · 33%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,840 to you and $3,840 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

Room to grow

Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.

What an operator sees: An operator sees upside: a gameset where a real service upgrade has room to move the numbers.

NTI/machine — 23rd percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Melrose Park — #35 of 39 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 17th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Melrose Park peers38 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Melrose Park peer (anonymized) statewide median

1 peer location sits beyond the axis range and is drawn at the edge — shown, never dropped.

Each gray dot is another Melrose Park 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 $33,591
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Melrose Park median ($33,591)

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)
$66/day
per machine · per day · Melrose Park median $187/day · −65%
At the Melrose Park median this gameset would add roughly $261,300 a year.

Your operator

Elite Gaming, LLC
Locations
65
Avg NTI / Location
$44,341
Avg NTI / Terminal
$7,390
Total NTI
$2,882,141

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $1,969 in September 2026 — the 23rd 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 Melrose Park, that's #35 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 9.1% — 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 2.48× 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.
•Room to grow — Both play and hold sit below the market — the clearest case that fresher cabinets, better titles, and faster service could lift results.
•After $4,136 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,840 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Elite Gaming, LLC runs 65 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full September 2026 report detail
Amount played
$129,552
Amount won
$117,736
Net wager
$11,816
Funds in
$52,163
Funds out
$40,347
Net terminal income
$11,816
NTI tax
$4,136
State share
$3,544
Municipality share
$591

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