Trends · data through August 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 2,225 stores from 584 gas & auto chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Clark Gas Station grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Buddy Bear Car Wash and Crew Carwash.

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
584
Tracked stores
2,225
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. Clark Gas Station and Buddy Bear Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Clark Gas Station logo Clark Gas Station ▲2 +19.5%
2 B Buddy Bear Car Wash logo Buddy Bear Car Wash ▲4 +14.9%
3 C Crew Carwash logo Crew Carwash - +9.3%
4 T TravelCenters of America logo TravelCenters of America ▲2 +8.4%
5 U U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer logo U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer ▲1 +7.9%
6 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car - +7.9%
7 T The Duke of Oil - +7.8%
8 T Take 5 Oil Change logo Take 5 Oil Change ▲1 +7.2%
9 R Ricky Rockets Fuel Center logo Ricky Rockets Fuel Center ▲1 +5.9%
10 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts - +4.2%
11 H Honda logo Honda ▼1 +3.7%
12 R Rainstorm Car Wash logo Rainstorm Car Wash ▲1 +3.6%
13 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change - +3.5%
14 A AutoZone logo AutoZone - +2.9%
15 S Shell logo Shell - +1.8%

Store footprint

Store map

2,225 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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