Trends · data through September 2026

Car Dealers in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 532 stores from 492 car dealer chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Honda grew fastest over the last year, ahead of CarMax and Hyundai.

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
492
Tracked stores
532
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked car dealer 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. Honda and CarMax sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Honda - +5.5%
2 CarMax - +4.0%
3 Hyundai - -4.8%
4 DriveTime Car Sales - -17.5%
5 Rush Truck Centers - -19.6%
  • CarMax
  • CIT Trucks
  • Honda
  • TransChicago Truck Group
  • Valley Honda
  • Hyundai
  • McGrath Honda of Elgin
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

532 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 25 of the 532 stores (5%); 471 of the 492 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car dealers, the same share as across Illinois.

  • CarMax (9)
  • CIT Trucks (4)
  • Honda (4)
  • TransChicago Truck Group (3)
  • Valley Honda (1)
  • Hyundai (3)
  • McGrath Honda of Elgin (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 CarMax 9
  • 2 Rush Truck Centers 5
  • 3 CIT Trucks 4
  • 4 Honda 4
  • 5 Byrider 3
  • 6 DriveTime Car Sales 3
  • 7 Volkswagen 3
  • 8 TransChicago Truck Group 3
  • 9 Hyundai 3
  • 10 Victory Toyota of Brook Park 2
  • 11 Your Choice Auto Sales 2
  • 12 Acura 2
  • 13 Chevrolet 2
  • 14 Toyota 2
  • 15 Schaumburg Honda 2
  • 16 Napleton Cadillac 2
  • 17 Northwest Trucks 2
  • 18 Raymond Kia 2
  • 19 Bettenhausen 1
  • 20 Thomas Toyota Scion 1
  • 21 Napleton's Mazda 1
  • 22 Elmhurst Ford 1
  • 23 Woodfield Nissan 1
  • 24 Zeigler Nissan of Orland Park 1
  • 25 Al Piemonte Nissan 1
  • 26 Elgin Hyundai 1
  • 27 Victory Honda 1
  • 28 City Chevrolet of Grayslake 1
  • 29 Continental Mitsubishi 1
  • 30 Advantage Toyota of River Oaks 1
  • 31 Art Hill Ford Lincoln 1
  • 32 Team Chevrolet 1
  • 33 Elgin Volkswagen 1
  • 34 Gerald Kia of Matteson 1
  • 35 Webb Ford, Inc. 1
  • 36 McGrath Elmhurst Toyota 1
  • 37 Orland Toyota 1
  • 38 Elgin Kia 1
  • 39 Joe Rizza Acura 1
  • 40 Castle Hyundai Oak Lawn 1
  • 41 Kunes Country Ford 1
  • 42 McGrath Volvo Cars Barrington 1
  • 43 Castle Subaru 1
  • 44 Packey Webb Ford 1
  • 45 Gerald Hyundai 1
  • 46 Garber Chevrolet Of Highland 1
  • 47 Toyota on Western 1
  • 48 Gerald Toyota of Matteson 1
  • 49 McGrath Kia of St. Charles 1
  • 50 St. Charles Chrysler Dodge Jeep 1

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