Top 413 Car Wash Chains in Illinois (2026)

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked car wash 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 Premier Car Wash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Buddy Bear Car Wash	-	+19.4%
2	Premier Car Wash	▲4	+15.8%
3	Tower Car Wash	▲3	+9.0%
4	Delta Sonic Car Wash	-	+7.1%
5	Ultimate Car Wash	▲4	+4.4%
6	Encore Car Wash	▲3	+3.8%
7	Rainstorm Car Wash	-	+3.5%
8	Waterway Carwash	-	+2.6%
9	Club Car Wash	▲1	+0.3%
10	WashU Car Wash	-	-3.2%
11	Car Wash City	-	-3.4%
12	Fuller's Car Wash	-	-4.2%
13	Brite WorX Car Washery	▲1	-6.3%
14	Raceway Car Wash	▲1	-9.0%
15	Wooly Wash	-	-14.9%

Delta Sonic Car Wash
Fuller's Car Wash
Buddy Bear Car Wash
Rainstorm Car Wash
Club Car Wash
Super Wash
Jet Brite Car Wash
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

639 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 94 of the 639 stores (15%); 351 of the 413 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked gas & auto stores here are car washes, against 6% across the United States.