The village stands to collect an additional $17,550 in revenue annually by increasing the gambling machine license fee from $25 to $250. 24 that the fee increase would be onerous for establishment. “I know this might be a concern of some of the board members, if not all of you, that we might be charging another fee on top some other fee we have for those businesses, but I think it’s affordable for them,” Cooper said. Tinley Park, meanwhile, charges $1,350 per machine, a figure split by the establishment owner and machine vendor. The city of Harvey, a home rule municipality in the south suburbs, charges a per-machine license fee of $1,000, while Countryside charges $750, according to Brookfield Finance Director Doug Cooper. While home rule communities – municipalities with populations of 25,000 or greater or smaller towns whose voters have approved a home rule referendum – always had leeway to charge higher fees for local video gambling machine licenses, the Illinois General Assembly had set the per-machine fee for non-home rule communities at $25 when the law passed a decade ago. The ability for non-home rule communities like Brookfield to increase the gambling machine license fee to $250 came via state legislation signed into law by Gov.