Champaign-Urbana, IL Retail & Consumer Trends 2026

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Jimmy John's and AutoZone sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Jimmy John's	▲4	+17.7%
2	AutoZone	-	+16.9%
3	Murphy USA	▲2	+15.3%
4	Ace Hardware	-	+13.5%
5	Culver's	▲3	+11.9%
6	Steak 'n Shake	▲1	+11.7%
7	Casey's	-	+9.7%
8	Dollar General	-	+7.6%
9	Meijer	-	+5.5%
10	Starbucks	▲3	+5.5%
11	Circle K	-	+5.1%
12	Advance Auto Parts	▲2	+4.8%
13	Walmart	-	+3.1%
14	O'Reilly Auto Parts	▲3	+2.6%
15	Schnucks	-	+1.9%

Store footprint

Store map

1,461 tracked store locations in Champaign-Urbana, IL, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 94 of the 1,461 stores (6%); 1,018 of the 1,134 tracked chains have a single store here.