Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 8,938 stores from 3,145 gas & auto chains in Illinois. M&K Truck Centers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Gerber Collision & Glass and Love's Travel Stop.

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
3,145
Tracked stores
8,938
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. M&K Truck Centers and Gerber Collision & Glass sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M&K Truck Centers ▲8 +18.8%
2 Gerber Collision & Glass ▲9 +17.2%
3 Love's Travel Stop - +15.4%
4 Plaza Tire Service ▲5 +14.3%
5 Sunoco ▲3 +13.7%
6 Phillips 66 Gas ▲1 +11.9%
7 Haymakers ▲3 +11.2%
8 Firestone ▲4 +10.9%
9 Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲1 +10.0%
10 Suburban Tire Auto Repair Center ▲3 +8.9%
11 Alamo Rent A Car ▲5 +8.9%
12 Delta Sonic Car Wash ▲1 +8.2%
13 Crash Champions Collision Repair ▲9 +6.8%
14 Fast Stop ▲3 +6.8%
15 Thorntons - +6.3%

Store footprint

Store map

8,938 tracked store locations in Illinois, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,903 of the 8,938 stores (21%); 2,828 of the 3,145 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are vehicle services, against 6% across the United States.

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