Trends · data through September 2026

Home Improvement Centers in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 435 stores from 106 home improvement center chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Menards grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Idlewood Electric Supply and Benjamin Moore.

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
106
Tracked stores
435
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked home improvement center 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. Menards and Idlewood Electric Supply sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Menards - +18.6%
2 Idlewood Electric Supply ▲1 +17.4%
3 Benjamin Moore - +10.1%
4 The Tile Shop - -4.9%
5 Lowe's Home Improvement - -5.2%
6 The Home Depot - -8.5%
7 Sherwin-Williams - -9.9%
8 Schillings - -13.5%
9 Leslie's Pool Supplies ▼1 -17.8%
10 Floor & Decor - -21.6%
11 Beacon Building Products - -99.8%
  • The Home Depot
  • Menards
  • Lowe's Home Improvement
  • Sherwin-Williams
  • Floor & Decor
  • Benjamin Moore
  • Schillings
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

435 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 283 of the 435 stores (65%); 86 of the 106 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked retail stores here are home improvement centers, against 4% across Illinois.

  • The Home Depot (71)
  • Menards (45)
  • Lowe's Home Improvement (20)
  • Sherwin-Williams (94)
  • Floor & Decor (10)
  • Benjamin Moore (53)
  • Schillings (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Sherwin-Williams 94
  • 2 The Home Depot 71
  • 3 Benjamin Moore 53
  • 4 Menards 45
  • 5 Lowe's Home Improvement 20
  • 6 The Tile Shop 13
  • 7 Leslie's Pool Supplies 12
  • 8 Floor & Decor 10
  • 9 McCann Industries 4
  • 10 Carroll Distributing & Construction Supply, Inc. 4
  • 11 Idlewood Electric Supply 3
  • 12 Beacon Building Products 3
  • 13 Schillings 3
  • 14 A-American Custom Flooring 2
  • 15 LAS Hardwoods 2
  • 16 Daltile 2
  • 17 Von Tobel 2
  • 18 DeMotte Carpet 2
  • 19 The Brewer Company 2
  • 20 Blue Jay Paint and Blinds 2
  • 21 All Star Construction 1
  • 22 JC Licht 1
  • 23 Exclusive Windows 1
  • 24 Mister Natural Services Inc. 1
  • 25 DuPage Rent-All 1
  • 26 Danial's 1
  • 27 Lion Concrete 1
  • 28 Lawn Squad of Aurora 1
  • 29 Nonie's Bees 1
  • 30 Sinbad oriental foods 1
  • 31 Best Way Rug & Furniture Cleaners 1
  • 32 WoodWorx Supply 1
  • 33 Door Depot 1
  • 34 Russell Martin Carpet 1
  • 35 Sir Grout Chicago 1
  • 36 A & L's Construction & Redi-Mix 1
  • 37 PPG Paints 1
  • 38 Naperville Mulch Sales 1
  • 39 Architectural Mall, Inc 1
  • 40 RKD Construction Supply 1
  • 41 Gemco Roofing & Building Supply 1
  • 42 Kaper's Building Material 1
  • 43 Gulfeagle Supply 1
  • 44 Great Northern Flooring 1
  • 45 Antioch Flooring 1
  • 46 Stone Age Innovation 1
  • 47 Ozinga 1
  • 48 American Lawn 1
  • 49 Blazing Fire 1
  • 50 LL Flooring 1

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