Trends · data through September 2026

Car Dealers in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 682 stores from 631 car dealer chains in Illinois. Honda grew fastest over the last year, ahead of CarMax and Hyundai.

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
631
Tracked stores
682
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked car dealer 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. Honda and CarMax sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Honda - +5.6%
2 CarMax - +5.4%
3 Hyundai - -7.2%
4 Rush Truck Centers - -33.9%
  • CarMax
  • CIT Trucks
  • Honda
  • TransChicago Truck Group
  • Valley Honda
  • Hyundai
  • McGrath Honda of Elgin
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

682 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 32 of the 682 stores (5%); 606 of the 631 tracked chains have a single store here. 8% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car dealers, against 7% across the United States.

  • CarMax (10)
  • CIT Trucks (10)
  • Honda (4)
  • TransChicago Truck Group (2)
  • Valley Honda (1)
  • Hyundai (4)
  • McGrath Honda of Elgin (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 CarMax 10
  • 2 CIT Trucks 10
  • 3 Honda 4
  • 4 Hyundai 4
  • 5 Rush Truck Centers 4
  • 6 Byrider 3
  • 7 Truck Centers, Inc. 3
  • 8 Ford 3
  • 9 Schaumburg Honda 2
  • 10 Toyota 2
  • 11 Acura 2
  • 12 Your Choice Auto Sales 2
  • 13 Volkswagen 2
  • 14 Chevrolet 2
  • 15 Victory Toyota of Brook Park 2
  • 16 DriveTime Car Sales 2
  • 17 Green Hyundai 2
  • 18 TransChicago Truck Group 2
  • 19 Napleton Cadillac 2
  • 20 Raymond Kia 2
  • 21 Gerald Honda of Matteson 1
  • 22 Joe Rizza Acura 1
  • 23 Bettenhausen 1
  • 24 Thomas Toyota Scion 1
  • 25 Napleton's Mazda 1
  • 26 Elgin Kia 1
  • 27 Lou Bachrodt Auto Mall 1
  • 28 Elmhurst Ford 1
  • 29 America's Car-Mart 1
  • 30 Orland Toyota 1
  • 31 McGrath Elmhurst Toyota 1
  • 32 Napleton's Toyota of Urbana 1
  • 33 Gerald Kia of Matteson 1
  • 34 Woodfield Nissan 1
  • 35 Elgin Volkswagen 1
  • 36 City Chevrolet of Grayslake 1
  • 37 Continental Mitsubishi 1
  • 38 Leman's Chevy City 1
  • 39 Advantage Toyota of River Oaks 1
  • 40 Kia 1
  • 41 Castle Hyundai Oak Lawn 1
  • 42 Kunes Country Ford 1
  • 43 McGrath Volvo Cars Barrington 1
  • 44 Packey Webb Ford 1
  • 45 Gerald Hyundai 1
  • 46 Toyota on Western 1
  • 47 Gerald Toyota of Matteson 1
  • 48 McGrath Kia of St. Charles 1
  • 49 St. Charles Chrysler Dodge Jeep 1
  • 50 Arlington Heights Ford 1

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