Metro by metro
The leading liquor store chains in every Illinois metro area
Tracked liquor store chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Binny's Beverage Depot leads in 6 metro areas, Friar Tuck Beverage in 1 metro area, and Liquor Zone in 1 metro area. Against their share in Illinois as a whole, Binny's Beverage Depot stands out in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Binny's Beverage Depot
Relative #1 in Chicago, IL (IL part), 1× its share in Illinois
Not enough tracked stores: Cape Girardeau, MO-IL (IL part) · Davenport, IA (IL part) · Decatur, IL · Paducah, KY-IL (IL part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Bloomington, IL · Champaign-Urbana, IL · Kankakee, IL · Peoria, IL · Rockford, IL · Springfield, IL · St. Louis, MO-IL (IL part)
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Binny's Beverage Depot
#1 in 6 metro areas
Chicago, IL (IL part) · Peoria, IL · Rockford, IL · Champaign-Urbana, IL · Springfield, IL · Bloomington, IL
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Friar Tuck Beverage
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Liquor Zone
#1 in Kankakee, IL
Not enough tracked stores: Cape Girardeau, MO-IL (IL part) · Davenport, IA (IL part) · Decatur, IL · Paducah, KY-IL (IL part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked liquor store chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Illinois compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Illinois as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Illinois and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Illinois is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Illinois. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked liquor store 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. CD Liquors and Cheap Cheap Liquor sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CD Liquors | ▲5 | +17.4% |
| 2 | Cheap Cheap Liquor | ▲5 | +10.4% |
| 3 | Speakeasy Liquors | - | +5.9% |
| 4 | Foremost Liquors | ▲1 | +5.1% |
| 5 | LIQUOR 'n' WINE | ▲1 | +5.0% |
| 6 | Sunrise Food & Liquor | ▲2 | +3.7% |
| 7 | Famous Liquors | ▲1 | +2.3% |
| 8 | Royal Liquor | ▲2 | +1.5% |
| 9 | House of Bottles | ▲1 | +0.9% |
| 10 | Prestige Liquors | ▲2 | +0.2% |
| 11 | Binny's Beverage Depot | - | -0.2% |
| 12 | Cardinal Wine & Spirits | ▼1 | -0.4% |
| 13 | Extra Value Liquors | - | -2.2% |
| 14 | United Liquors | - | -3.4% |
| 15 | Lyons Beverage Depot | - | -5.0% |
- Binny's Beverage Depot
- Armanetti Liquor
- Lyons Beverage Depot
- Montrose Food and Liquor
- Garfield's Beverage Warehouse
- Matteson Wine and Spirits
- Foremost Liquors
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
1,251 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 81 of the 1,251 stores (6%); 999 of the 1,068 tracked chains have a single store here. 27% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are liquor stores, against 22% across the United States.
- Binny's Beverage Depot (47)
- Armanetti Liquor (11)
- Lyons Beverage Depot (5)
- Montrose Food and Liquor (1)
- Garfield's Beverage Warehouse (8)
- Matteson Wine and Spirits (1)
- Foremost Liquors (10)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Binny's Beverage Depot 47
- 2 Armanetti Liquor 11
- 3 Foremost Liquors 10
- 4 Garfield's Beverage Warehouse 8
- 5 Foremost Liquor 5
- 6 Extra Value Liquors 5
- 7 United Liquors 5
- 8 Friar Tuck Beverage 5
- 9 LIQUOR 'n' WINE 5
- 10 Prestige Liquors 5
- 11 Lyons Beverage Depot 5
- 12 Rollnup 5
- 13 Cardinal Wine & Spirits 4
- 14 Speakeasy Liquors 4
- 15 United Liquor 4
- 16 Royal Liquor 4
- 17 Sav-On Liquor & Wine 4
- 18 Lundeen's Discount Liquors 4
- 19 CD Liquors 3
- 20 Cheap Cheap Liquor 3
- 21 Famous Liquors 3
- 22 House of Bottles 3
- 23 A&S Beverages 3
- 24 Liquor Barn 3
- 25 Sunrise Food & Liquor 3
- 26 Sal's Beverage World 3
- 27 A1 Liquors 3
- 28 Sunrise Liquors 2
- 29 Leo's Liquors 2
- 30 Jim's Liquor 2
- 31 Buy Low Liquors 2
- 32 Burnham Liquors 2
- 33 Discount Liquors 2
- 34 Sav-On Liquor and Wine 2
- 35 Sunrise Food and Liquor 2
- 36 Friar Tuck 2
- 37 World-Wide Liquors 2
- 38 Broadway Liquors 2
- 39 Lucky's Beer Wine Spirits 2
- 40 Famous Liquor 2
- 41 One Stop Food and Liquor 2
- 42 Community Food & Liquor 2
- 43 George's Wine & Spirits 2
- 44 Extra Value Wine & Liquor 2
- 45 Cork Keg & Spirits 2
- 46 Barrel & Vine 2
- 47 707 Liquors and Mart 2
- 48 Bucktown Food & Liquor 2
- 49 Ike's Liquors 2
- 50 Miska's Liquor 2
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