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MARENGO LIQUOR N WINE

Marengo · McHenry County · IL · 6 terminals
IGB license 260701340 · Operator: Elite Gaming, LLC (as of August 2026)
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Room to grow

Your performance · September 2026

NTI
$13,195
net terminal income · this month
Win per unit
$73
per machine · per day
Terminals
6
machines in service
Annualized NTI
$158,342
est. from latest month

The four numbers operators read first

NTI / machine
$2,199
monthly · per terminal
state median $4,170/mo
26th pct of 8,629 IL locations
#11 of 13 in Marengo
Hold
8.1%
this month
state median 9.4% · below
27th pct of 8,629 IL locations
15th pct of 13 in Marengo
Cycle rate
2.40×
this month
state median 2.59× · engagement
25th pct of 8,629 IL locations
42nd pct of 13 in Marengo
Play / machine
$27.0K
monthly · per terminal
state median $45.5K/mo
30th pct of 8,629 IL locations
27th pct of 13 in Marengo

Against locations your size (6+ terminals, 6,823 of them), your NTI/machine is −$2,789/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
$13,195
Gaming tax
−$4,618
After tax
$8,577
Your take-home
$4,288
your 50% this month
Gaming tax$4,618 · 35%Operator's 50%$4,288 · 32%Yours, 50%$4,288 · 32%

Illinois law fixes the after-tax split at 50/50 and bans any deviation (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $4,288 to you and $4,288 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 — 26th percentile of 8,629 Illinois locations this month
In Marengo — #11 of 13 locations by NTI/machine (your own neighborhood, the fairest like-for-like)
Among locations your size (6+ terminals) — 19th percentile of 6,823
Your gameset — you among your Marengo peers12 peer locations
play per machine →
your gameset a Marengo peer (anonymized) statewide median

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 $17,828
2026
latest month up vs prior down vs prior Marengo median ($17,828)

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

Cycle rate by monthlatest 2.40× · 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 $73 · Marengo median $99
your WPU (per machine, per day) Marengo 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

Marengo's total gaming income is +10% 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)
$73/day
per machine · per day · Marengo median $99/day · −26%
At the Marengo median this gameset would add roughly $55,598 a year.

Your operator

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

Takeaways

•Each terminal earned about $2,199 in September 2026 — the 26th 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 Marengo, that's #11 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 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 2.40× 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 $4,618 in gaming tax, September 2026's income is split 50/50 with your operator by law (230 ILCS 40/25(c)) — about $4,288 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
$162,073
Amount won
$148,878
Net wager
$13,195
Funds in
$67,419
Funds out
$54,224
Net terminal income
$13,195
NTI tax
$4,618
State share
$3,958
Municipality share
$660

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