Trends · data through September 2026

Other trends in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 9,421 stores from 6,683 other chains in Illinois. PLS Check Cashers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ferguson Plumbing Supply and Tricoci University of Beauty Culture.

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
6,683
Tracked stores
9,421
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked other 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. PLS Check Cashers and Ferguson Plumbing Supply sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 PLS Check Cashers ▲3 +17.9%
2 Ferguson Plumbing Supply ▲4 +17.4%
3 Tricoci University of Beauty Culture ▲3 +9.2%
4 SRS Building Products ▲3 +4.3%
5 Earthmover Credit Union ▲3 +1.8%
6 Abri Credit Union ▲5 +1.7%
7 The Lock Up Self Storage ▲4 +1.1%
8 Illinois Secretary of State ▲5 +1.0%
9 FedEx Ship Center ▲2 +0.8%
10 Sunbelt Rentals ▲3 -0.3%
11 Johnstone Supply ▲4 -0.7%
12 U-Stor-It Self Storage ▲4 -2.3%
13 SmartStop Self Storage ▲2 -4.8%
14 Laundry World ▲6 -6.9%
15 TWO MEN AND A TRUCK ▲6 -7.4%

Store footprint

Store map

9,421 tracked store locations in Illinois, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,165 of the 9,421 stores (12%); 6,320 of the 6,683 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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