Trends · data through September 2026

Gas & Auto trends in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 6,017 stores from 2,371 gas & auto chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Gas N Wash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of CIT Trucks and Love's Travel Stop.

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
2,371
Tracked stores
6,017
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gas & auto 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. Gas N Wash and CIT Trucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Gas N Wash logo Gas N Wash ▲1 +19.9%
2 C CIT Trucks ▲4 +19.8%
3 L Love's Travel Stop logo Love's Travel Stop ▲4 +19.6%
4 C Crew Carwash logo Crew Carwash ▲7 +18.9%
5 G Gerber Collision & Glass ▲8 +18.6%
6 R Rainstorm Car Wash logo Rainstorm Car Wash ▲9 +15.7%
7 C Crash Champions Collision Repair logo Crash Champions Collision Repair ▲4 +13.9%
8 S Sunoco logo Sunoco ▲4 +13.7%
9 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲1 +13.6%
10 F Firestone logo Firestone ▲4 +13.2%
11 P Phillips 66 Gas ▲3 +12.7%
12 D Delta Sonic Car Wash logo Delta Sonic Car Wash - +10.5%
13 S Suburban Tire Auto Repair Center logo Suburban Tire Auto Repair Center ▲2 +10.0%
14 F Firestone Complete Auto Care logo Firestone Complete Auto Care ▲3 +8.4%
15 C Cassidy Tire & Service - +7.8%

Store footprint

Store map

6,017 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category.

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