Trends · data through September 2026

Self Storage Facilities in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 463 stores from 66 self storage facility chains in Illinois. U-Stor-It Self Storage grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Lock Up Self Storage and Boxed Up Self-Storage.

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
66
Tracked stores
463
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked self storage facility 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. U-Stor-It Self Storage and The Lock Up Self Storage sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 U U-Stor-It Self Storage logo U-Stor-It Self Storage ▲2 +10.8%
2 T The Lock Up Self Storage logo The Lock Up Self Storage ▲1 +7.1%
3 B Boxed Up Self-Storage ▲1 +4.3%
4 S Storage Rentals of America logo Storage Rentals of America - -2.9%
5 N Next Door Self Storage ▲3 -7.2%
6 E Extra Space Storage logo Extra Space Storage - -9.8%
7 S SmartStop Self Storage logo SmartStop Self Storage ▲1 -11.3%
8 C CubeSmart Self Storage logo CubeSmart Self Storage - -12.6%
9 M Minify Self Storage ▲2 -22.8%
10 I iStorage logo iStorage ▼1 -26.7%
11 S Storage Sense logo Storage Sense ▲1 -34.1%
12 1 10 Federal Storage logo 10 Federal Storage ▼1 -52.5%
13 L Life Storage logo Life Storage - -84.7%
14 M Metro Self Storage logo Metro Self Storage ▼9 -100.0%
  • Extra Space Storage
  • CubeSmart Self Storage
  • Public Storage
  • StorageMart
  • The Lock Up Self Storage
  • iStorage
  • Storage Post Self Storage
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

463 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Extra Space Storage (170)
  • CubeSmart Self Storage (82)
  • Public Storage (59)
  • StorageMart (19)
  • The Lock Up Self Storage (11)
  • iStorage (7)
  • Storage Post Self Storage (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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