Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 6,478 stores from 2,550 gas & auto chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. M&K Truck Centers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Crew Carwash and TransChicago Truck Group.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
2,550
Tracked stores
6,478
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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. M&K Truck Centers and Crew Carwash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M&K Truck Centers ▲8 +19.7%
2 Crew Carwash ▲9 +18.3%
3 TransChicago Truck Group ▲2 +15.9%
4 Rainstorm Car Wash ▲6 +15.8%
5 Enterprise Rent-A-Car - +12.9%
6 Sunoco ▲1 +11.4%
7 Firestone ▲4 +11.1%
8 Gerber Collision & Glass ▲5 +10.7%
9 Suburban Tire Auto Repair Center ▲4 +10.6%
10 Delta Sonic Car Wash - +9.8%
11 Casey's General Store ▲3 +9.5%
12 Thorntons - +8.9%
13 Tire Barn Warehouse - +8.6%
14 Crash Champions Collision Repair ▲3 +8.4%
15 O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲1 +7.9%

Store footprint

Store map

6,478 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,325 of the 6,478 stores (20%); 2,294 of the 2,550 tracked chains have a single store here.

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