Where does the data come from?

Every number you see in FloorRadar comes from a public source. Here's the full list.

Illinois Gaming Board (IGB)

The primary data source. Every month, the IGB publishes a CSV file containing every licensed VGT venue in Illinois — about 8,500 rows. Each row has:

• License number, establishment name, municipality
• Funds in (money inserted into machines)
• Funds out (winnings paid to players)
• Net Terminal Income (NTI) — the revenue figure
• VGT count (number of machines at the venue)
• NTI tax, state share, municipality share

FloorRadar imports the file each month, normalizes the formatting (municipality names like "ELK GROVE VILLAGE" vs "Elk Grove Village" get standardized), and stores it in our database. The full historical archive going back to 2013 is available for trend analysis.

Illinois Secretary of State (ILSOS)

Used by the Acquirer add-on for owner-contact enrichment. ILSOS is the public registry for Illinois entities — every LLC, corporation, and registered business has officer names, registered agent info, and address on file. We scrape this for licensed VGT establishments to surface "who actually owns this venue" for acquisition research.

Google Maps

Phone numbers, websites, ratings, and review counts for venues come from Google Maps Places API. Used in the Acquirer add-on contact enrichment.

FloorRadar's own enrichment

Some derived data isn't from any single source — it's computed:

• NTI per VGT (efficiency metric)
• Tier rankings within a municipality
• Trailing-12-month trends and 6-month deltas
• AI-generated industry-news summaries (from public IGB press releases + board meeting minutes)

What we don't have

We don't have customer counts, individual machine performance below the venue level, or anything inside a specific venue's books. The IGB report aggregates at the venue-month level; that's what we work with.