Trends · data through September 2026

Self Storage Facilities in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 441 stores from 74 self storage facility chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. U-Stor-It Self Storage grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Lock Up Self Storage and Global Self Storage.

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
74
Tracked stores
441
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked self storage facility 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. U-Stor-It Self Storage and The Lock Up Self Storage sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 U U-Stor-It Self Storage logo U-Stor-It Self Storage ▲2 +5.4%
2 T The Lock Up Self Storage logo The Lock Up Self Storage ▲1 +5.3%
3 G Global Self Storage logo Global Self Storage ▲1 -6.6%
4 N Next Door Self Storage ▲1 -8.8%
5 E Extra Space Storage logo Extra Space Storage - -9.7%
6 S Storage Rentals of America logo Storage Rentals of America ▲1 -10.9%
7 C CubeSmart Self Storage logo CubeSmart Self Storage - -12.6%
8 S SmartStop Self Storage logo SmartStop Self Storage - -12.8%
9 I iStorage logo iStorage ▼2 -27.9%
10 L Life Storage logo Life Storage ▲1 -84.9%
11 M Metro Self Storage logo Metro Self Storage ▼5 -100.0%
  • Extra Space Storage
  • CubeSmart Self Storage
  • Public Storage
  • StorageMart
  • The Lock Up Self Storage
  • Storage Rentals of America
  • iStorage
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Extra Space Storage (161)
  • CubeSmart Self Storage (65)
  • Public Storage (63)
  • StorageMart (19)
  • The Lock Up Self Storage (11)
  • Storage Rentals of America (14)
  • iStorage (7)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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