Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 2,930 stores from 344 fast food restaurants chains in Illinois. Baba's Famous Steak & Lemonade grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Shake Shack and Chick-fil-A.

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
344
Tracked stores
2,930
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked fast food restaurants 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. Baba's Famous Steak & Lemonade and Shake Shack sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Baba's Famous Steak & Lemonade ▲3 +18.0%
2 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲1 +10.7%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +9.3%
4 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲1 +8.7%
5 S Steak 'n Shake logo Steak 'n Shake - +8.2%
6 J Joey's Red Hots logo Joey's Red Hots - +5.7%
7 B Buona logo Buona - +5.4%
8 T The Hoagie Place ▲1 +3.1%
9 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In - +0.5%
10 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - 0.0%
11 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▼1 -0.1%
12 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -0.4%
13 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▼1 -0.4%
14 P Portillo's logo Portillo's - -0.4%
15 M Mickey's Gyros - -0.7%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Portillo's
  • Culver's
  • Taco Bell
  • Burger King
  • Wendy's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,930 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (583)
  • Chick-fil-A (76)
  • Portillo's (51)
  • Culver's (122)
  • Taco Bell (211)
  • Burger King (296)
  • Wendy's (208)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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