Trends · data through August 2026

Hardware Stores in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 226 stores from 41 hardware stores chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Russo Power Equipment grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sherwin-Williams and Tractor Supply Co..

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: 41
Tracked stores: 226
Consumer panel: 130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked hardware stores 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. Russo Power Equipment and Sherwin-Williams sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	R Russo Power Equipment	-	+16.5%
2	S Sherwin-Williams	-	+9.9%
3	T Tractor Supply Co.	-	+4.1%
4	T True Value	-	+3.3%
5	M Menards	-	+0.2%
6	A Ace Hardware	-	-0.9%
7	Z Ziegler's Ace	-	-5.0%
8	H Harbor Freight Tools	-	-19.7%

Menards
Ace Hardware
Harbor Freight Tools
Sherwin-Williams
Tractor Supply Co.
Russo Power Equipment
Wm F Meyer Co
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

Menards (44)
Ace Hardware (75)
Harbor Freight Tools (27)
Sherwin-Williams (14)
Tractor Supply Co. (14)
Russo Power Equipment (3)
Wm F Meyer Co (1)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

1 A Ace Hardware 75
2 M Menards 44
3 H Harbor Freight Tools 27
4 S Sherwin-Williams 14
5 T Tractor Supply Co. 14
6 T True Value 8
7 Z Ziegler's Ace 6
8 R Russo Power Equipment 3
9 C Crafty Beaver Home Center 2
10 B Berland's House of Tools 2
11 H H&B True Value Hardware 1
12 S Select Sales 1
13 J Joseph's Hardware 1
14 E Extreme Tools 1
15 A Andersonville Hardware Store 1
16 C Clarendon Hills Hardware 1
17 G Gordon Hardware 1
18 B Bosch 1
19 K Kim's Hardware 1
20 C Cedar Lake True Value Hardware 1
21 C Clark And Barlow 1
22 L LeDonne True Value Hardware 1
23 L Lowell True Value Hardware 1
24 P Palatine True Value 1
25 S Schauer Hardware 1
26 E Elmwood Supply 1
27 D Dsg Restaurant 1
28 F Freestyle Ceramics & Tufting 1
29 F Fuller's Home & Hardware 1
30 R Rockler Woodworking and Hardware 1
31 P Park Ace Hardware 1
32 B Brady's This Is It Stores 1
33 T The Faucet Shoppe 1
34 D Des Plaines Ace Hardware 1
35 B Broadview Hardware 1
36 A Algor Plumbing and Heating Supply 1
37 H Henry Frerk Sons Inc. 1
38 C Clark-Devon Hardware 1
39 C Craftwood Lumber & Hardware 1
40 J JC Licht True Value 1
41 W Wm F Meyer Co 1

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