Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 2,093 stores from 330 fast food restaurants chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Baba's Famous Steak & Lemonade grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Perros Brothers Gyros and Shake Shack.

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
330
Tracked stores
2,093
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked fast food restaurants 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. Baba's Famous Steak & Lemonade and Perros Brothers Gyros sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Baba's Famous Steak & Lemonade ▲3 +19.2%
2 P Perros Brothers Gyros ▲2 +18.9%
3 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲1 +11.9%
4 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +10.8%
5 S Steak 'n Shake logo Steak 'n Shake - +10.5%
6 J Joey's Red Hots logo Joey's Red Hots ▲1 +6.8%
7 B Buona logo Buona - +6.8%
8 T The Hoagie Place ▲2 +4.2%
9 C Culver's logo Culver's - +2.3%
10 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +2.1%
11 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +1.1%
12 L Long John Silver's logo Long John Silver's - +0.9%
13 M Mickey's Gyros ▲1 +0.3%
14 P Portillo's logo Portillo's - -0.3%
15 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 -0.8%
  • McDonald's
  • Portillo's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Taco Bell
  • Culver's
  • Burger King
  • Wendy's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,093 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (395)
  • Portillo's (48)
  • Chick-fil-A (63)
  • Taco Bell (144)
  • Culver's (89)
  • Burger King (224)
  • Wendy's (164)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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