Metro by metro
The leading pharmacy chains in every Illinois metro area
Tracked pharmacy chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Walgreens leads in all 9 metro areas with enough data. Against their share in Illinois as a whole, CVS Pharmacy stands out in 5 metro areas, Walgreens in 4 metro areas.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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CVS Pharmacy
Relative #1 in 5 metro areas
Peoria, IL 1.8× · Champaign-Urbana, IL 1.5× · Springfield, IL 1.1× · Bloomington, IL 2.2× · Decatur, IL 1.3×
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Walgreens
Relative #1 in 4 metro areas
Chicago, IL (IL part) 1× · St. Louis, MO-IL (IL part) 1× · Rockford, IL 1.1× · Davenport, IA (IL part) 1.1×
Not enough tracked stores: Cape Girardeau, MO-IL (IL part) · Kankakee, IL · Paducah, KY-IL (IL part)
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Walgreens
#1 in all 9 metro areas
Not enough tracked stores: Cape Girardeau, MO-IL (IL part) · Kankakee, IL · Paducah, KY-IL (IL part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked pharmacy 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 pharmacy 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. Axline Pharmacy and Hartig Drug sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Axline Pharmacy | - | +5.6% |
| 2 | Hartig Drug | - | +0.3% |
| 3 | Walgreens | - | +0.2% |
| 4 | CVS Pharmacy | - | -1.3% |
| 5 | The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy | - | -11.5% |
| 6 | Snyders Pharmacy | - | -11.7% |
| 7 | Medline Industries | - | -34.2% |
| 8 | Medicine Shoppe | - | -34.6% |
- Walgreens
- CVS Pharmacy
- Oswald's Pharmacy
- Lombard Pharmacy
- Preckshot Professional Pharmacy
- Braun PharmaCare
- The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
1,234 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 994 of the 1,234 stores (81%); 205 of the 224 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are pharmacies, the same share as across the United States.
- Walgreens (588)
- CVS Pharmacy (384)
- Oswald's Pharmacy (1)
- Lombard Pharmacy (1)
- Preckshot Professional Pharmacy (1)
- Braun PharmaCare (1)
- The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy (4)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Walgreens 588
- 2 CVS Pharmacy 384
- 3 Genoa Healthcare 9
- 4 Medicine Shoppe 9
- 5 The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy 4
- 6 Axline Pharmacy 4
- 7 Hartig Drug 4
- 8 Sullivan Drugs 3
- 9 Snyders Pharmacy 3
- 10 Medline Industries 3
- 11 Pharmacy Plus 2
- 12 Kremer Pharmacy 2
- 13 Quik Scripts 2
- 14 Potter Drug 2
- 15 Martinsville Pharmacy 2
- 16 Bienestar Pharmacy 2
- 17 Keefer's Pharmacy 2
- 18 Osco Drug 2
- 19 Kedvon Pharmacy 2
- 20 Shadra Pharmacy 1
- 21 Logan Professional Pharmacy 1
- 22 Oakwood Apothecary 1
- 23 Health Mart Pharmacy 1
- 24 Fairbury Pharmacy 1
- 25 LV Health & Wellness Pharmacy 1
- 26 Rana-Reagan Pharmacy 1
- 27 Med USA Pharmacy 1
- 28 Smithton Pharmacy 1
- 29 Doehrings Pharmacy 1
- 30 Wilmington Pharmacy 1
- 31 Medicate Pharmacy 1
- 32 Family Care Pharmacy 1
- 33 Nazareth Family Center Pharmacy 1
- 34 Moreland & Devitt Pharmacy 1
- 35 Holy Family Medical Center: Pharmacy 1
- 36 Rosens Morseview Pharmacy 1
- 37 SAH Pharmacy 1
- 38 First Response 1
- 39 Plum Street Pharmacy 1
- 40 Colee's Corner Drugs 1
- 41 Touhy Family Pharmacy 1
- 42 Millstadt Pharmacy 1
- 43 Mason City Pharmacy 1
- 44 Chenoa Pharmacy 1
- 45 Lehan Drugs 1
- 46 Nutrition Works 1
- 47 Tu Pharmacy | Tu Farmacia 1
- 48 Stotlar Drug Company 1
- 49 Local Health Pharmacy 1
- 50 Immediate Care Pharmacy 1
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