Geometry authority: Map dots reflect locations present in the selected monthly file with valid coordinates. Establishments without coordinates still contribute to financial totals; they simply do not appear on the map.
Prior period adjustments: Rows the state labels as Prior Period Adjustments (tax-allocation accounting lines, typically lacking a license number) are excluded from all calculations. Real establishments with VGT Count = 0 but nonzero NTI are retained — their NTI sums to statewide totals and they contribute 0 VGT-days to per-unit denominators.
VGT Count (period-correct): Current Month sums machines across establishments. YTD uses each establishment's as-of count (its machine count in the selected month). 12MM uses the trailing-twelve-month average machine count.
Daily Win Per Unit: In every period, WPU = sum of NTI ÷ sum of true VGT-days, where VGT-days is each month's machine count × actual days in that month.
Performance coloring: Dot and slider colors reflect statewide quintile ranking on the selected metric — bottom 20% red through top 20% green. Quintiles recompute each month against the active population. VGT Count is shown in a neutral palette since a small machine count is not inherently a performance signal.
Statewide reports — single source of truth: Statewide Current Month, YTD, and 12MM reports read every metric (NTI, VGTs, WPU, funds, hold %, replay) from one period universe, so all metrics share the same population by construction.
Operator attribution (reverse pro forma): Every license is attributed to its CURRENT terminal operator from the IL Gaming Board's licensed-establishment registry, applied retroactively across all historical months. If a license operated under a different terminal operator in the past but now reports under a new one, RouteReveal credits its full operating history to the present-day operator. This gives operators a consistent forward-looking view of their current portfolio across time. It is not a historical accounting view — operators auditing point-in-time historical records should compare against their internal records, not RouteReveal.
Unknown Operator: Licenses that appeared in monthly revenue data but are not in the current EstablishmentLinkToTerminalOperator snapshot — typically because the establishment closed or its license was retired — appear under "Unknown Operator." Their revenue still counts toward statewide totals; only the operator attribution is unknown. This is the honest treatment of historical attribution where current truth is unavailable.
License type: Read directly from each location's properties at runtime (sourced from the IL Gaming Board's licensed-applicants file during ingest). Distinguishes Establishment, Fraternal, Veterans, Truck Stop, and Large Truck Stop. For any monthly record without an explicit license_type field, RouteReveal falls back to a master metadata lookup, then to the license number prefix encoding (positions 3-4: 07/08/09/10).
County choropleth: Counties are colored by quintile of the selected metric, computed live from all active locations in the selected month and period. Quintile cutoffs recompute on each metric/period change. Click a county to open its report — live aggregations across all locations in that county, plus the county's rank among Illinois's 102 counties on the selected metric.
Chicago Wards choropleth: Chicago video gaming launched December 2025. Ward attribution is performed at the app via point-in-polygon: each Chicago-area location's coordinates are tested against the 50 ward boundaries from the Chicago Boundaries dataset. Ward reports show live aggregations and the ward's rank among the 50 wards. Coverage will deepen as additional Chicago locations come online.
Pending applicants: The pending applicants layer reflects the IL Gaming Board's pending license file, geocoded during ingest. Pending applicants are shown as hollow orange dots distinct from live locations. County and ward reports surface pending pipeline counts as a leading indicator of where new gaming activity is likely to appear.
Same-license dedup: If the source file contains two rows for the same establishment in the same month (e.g. one operating row and one adjustment row), they are netted together so each establishment appears once on the map and in rankings. A console warning fires only when both rows carry nonzero VGT counts (the ambiguous case).
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