Top 281 Car Wash Chains in Chicago, IL (2026)

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked car wash 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. Buddy Bear Car Wash and Premier Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Buddy Bear Car Wash	-	+19.2%
2	Premier Car Wash	▲3	+16.1%
3	Crew Carwash	▲1	+15.2%
4	Rainstorm Car Wash	▲1	+12.8%
5	Tower Car Wash	▲2	+8.9%
6	Delta Sonic Car Wash	-	+7.0%
7	Encore Car Wash	▲1	+4.0%
8	Waterway Carwash	▲1	+2.4%
9	WashU Car Wash	-	-3.3%
10	Fuller's Car Wash	-	-4.3%
11	Raceway Car Wash	▲2	-9.1%
12	Jet Brite Car Wash	▼2	-37.5%
13	Nappa Car Wash	▲1	-38.5%
14	Drive & Shine Car Wash and Oil Change	▼2	-45.7%
15	Dream Clean Auto Wash	▼4	-63.3%

Delta Sonic Car Wash
Fuller's Car Wash
Buddy Bear Car Wash
Rainstorm Car Wash
Crew Carwash
Super Wash
Jet Brite Car Wash
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

434 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 73 of the 434 stores (17%); 237 of the 281 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car washes, the same share as across Illinois.