Trends · data through August 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 2,886 stores from 697 gas & auto chains in Illinois. Buddy Bear Car Wash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Take 5 Oil Change and Phillips 66.

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
697
Tracked stores
2,886
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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. Buddy Bear Car Wash and Take 5 Oil Change sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Buddy Bear Car Wash logo Buddy Bear Car Wash ▲3 +14.9%
2 T Take 5 Oil Change logo Take 5 Oil Change ▲1 +12.8%
3 P Phillips 66 ▲2 +9.1%
4 U U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer logo U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer ▲3 +9.1%
5 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change - +7.6%
6 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲1 +7.5%
7 R Ricky Rockets Fuel Center logo Ricky Rockets Fuel Center - +5.9%
8 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts ▲1 +5.0%
9 S Sunoco logo Sunoco - +4.4%
10 V Valvoline Express Care - +4.1%
11 H Honda logo Honda - +3.8%
12 P Phillips 66 Gas - +3.2%
13 A Advance Auto Parts logo Advance Auto Parts ▲2 +3.2%
14 A AutoZone logo AutoZone ▲1 +2.8%
15 M MotoMart Convenience Stores logo MotoMart Convenience Stores ▲2 +2.6%

Store footprint

Store map

2,886 tracked store locations in Illinois, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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