Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 982 stores from 811 liquor store chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. CD Liquors grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cheap Cheap Liquor and Discount Liquors.

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
811
Tracked stores
982
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked liquor store 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. CD Liquors and Cheap Cheap Liquor sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 CD Liquors ▲3 +17.3%
2 Cheap Cheap Liquor ▲1 +10.3%
3 Discount Liquors - +6.5%
4 LIQUOR 'n' WINE ▲1 +5.3%
5 Foremost Liquors ▲1 +3.2%
6 Royal Liquor ▼1 +3.0%
7 Nick's Liquors - +2.8%
8 Sunrise Liquors ▲1 +1.3%
9 Prestige Liquors - 0.0%
10 Binny's Beverage Depot - -0.1%
11 Cardinal Wine & Spirits - -0.5%
12 Extra Value Liquors ▲1 -2.3%
13 United Liquors ▼1 -3.5%
14 Kennan Liquors - -4.1%
15 Lyons Beverage Depot - -5.1%
  • Binny's Beverage Depot
  • LiqGo!
  • Armanetti Liquor
  • Lyons Beverage Depot
  • Montrose Food and Liquor
  • Garfield's Beverage Warehouse
  • Nick's Liquors
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

982 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 83 of the 982 stores (8%); 755 of the 811 tracked chains have a single store here. 28% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 27% across Illinois.

  • Binny's Beverage Depot (42)
  • LiqGo! (11)
  • Armanetti Liquor (11)
  • Lyons Beverage Depot (5)
  • Montrose Food and Liquor (1)
  • Garfield's Beverage Warehouse (8)
  • Nick's Liquors (6)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Binny's Beverage Depot 42
  • 2 LiqGo! 11
  • 3 Armanetti Liquor 11
  • 4 Foremost Liquors 11
  • 5 Garfield's Beverage Warehouse 8
  • 6 Nick's Liquors 6
  • 7 Party Liquors 6
  • 8 Lyons Beverage Depot 5
  • 9 Prestige Liquors 5
  • 10 Cask-N-Cellar 5
  • 11 Foremost Liquor 5
  • 12 Extra Value Liquors 5
  • 13 United Liquors 5
  • 14 Discount Liquors 4
  • 15 Lundeen's Discount Liquors 4
  • 16 Cardinal Wine & Spirits 4
  • 17 A&S Beverages 3
  • 18 Sunrise Liquors 3
  • 19 Sal's Beverage World 3
  • 20 Royal Liquor 3
  • 21 LIQUOR 'n' WINE 3
  • 22 United Liquor 3
  • 23 Kennan Liquors 3
  • 24 CD Liquors 3
  • 25 Cheap Cheap Liquor 3
  • 26 Bucktown Food & Liquor 2
  • 27 Buy Low Liquors 2
  • 28 World-Wide Liquors 2
  • 29 Sunrise Food and Liquor 2
  • 30 Liquor Barn 2
  • 31 Burnham Liquors 2
  • 32 Handy Spot Liquor 2
  • 33 Royal Liquors 2
  • 34 Miska's Liquor 2
  • 35 Sunrise Food & Liquor 2
  • 36 Leo's Liquors 2
  • 37 Town & Country Liquors 2
  • 38 Famous Liquors 2
  • 39 Lake Liquors 2
  • 40 Extra Value Wine & Liquor 2
  • 41 George's Wine & Spirits 2
  • 42 Liquor Stop 2
  • 43 Ike's Liquors 2
  • 44 Jim's Liquor 2
  • 45 One Stop Food and Liquor 2
  • 46 Community Food & Liquor 2
  • 47 Barrel & Vine 2
  • 48 Sams Liquor 1
  • 49 Greene Valley Wine & Spirits 1
  • 50 Fairview Mart 1

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