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MARENGO LIQUOR N WINE

Marengo · McHenry County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 260701340 · Operator: Elite Gaming, LLC
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Room to grow

Your performance · August 2026

NTI
$10,724
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$58
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$128,691
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$1,787
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,345/mo
20th pct of 8,611 IL locations
#13 of 13 in Marengo
Hold
5.7%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
7th pct of 8,611 IL locations
0th pct of 13 in Marengo
Cycle rate
2.44×
this month
state median 2.60× · engagement
30th pct of 8,611 IL locations
46th pct of 13 in Marengo
Play / machine
$31.6K
monthly · per terminal
state median $47.1K/mo
34th pct of 8,611 IL locations
27th pct of 13 in Marengo

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,794 of them), your NTI/machine is −$3,322/mo vs the $5,109 peer median — bucketing by size keeps a small bar from being measured against a big one.

Where the money goes (August 2026)

NTI this month
$10,724
Gaming tax
−$3,754
After tax
$6,971
Your take-home
$3,485
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$3,754 · 35%Operator's 50%$3,485 · 32%Yours, 50%$3,485 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,485 to you and $3,485 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 — 20th percentile of 8,611 Illinois locations this month
In Marengo — #13 of 13 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 13th percentile of 6,794
Your gameset — you among your Marengo peers12 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Marengo 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 Marengo 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 $24,743
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Marengo median ($24,743)

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

Your town's market

Marengo's total gaming income is +16% 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)
$58/day
per machine · per day · Marengo median $133/day · −57%
At the Marengo median this gameset would add roughly $168,226 a year.

Your operator

Elite Gaming, LLC
Locations
63
Avg NTI / Location
$46,878
Avg NTI / Terminal
$7,813
Total NTI
$2,953,297

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $1,787 in August 2026 — the 20th percentile of 8,611 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 Marengo, that's #13 of 13 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 5.7% — 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 2.44× 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 $3,754 in gaming tax, August 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $3,485 to you. Neither side can move that split, which is why operators here compete on service.
•Terminal Operator Elite Gaming, LLC runs 63 Locations in our data.
There's headroom in these numbers.

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Full August 2026 report detail
Amount played
$189,469
Amount won
$178,745
Net wager
$10,724
Funds in
$77,642
Funds out
$66,917
Net terminal income
$10,724
NTI tax
$3,754
State share
$3,217
Municipality share
$537

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