Trends · data through July 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 2,216 stores from 574 gas & auto chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Buddy Bear Car Wash grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Crew Carwash and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

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
574
Tracked stores
2,216
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. Buddy Bear Car Wash and Crew Carwash sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Buddy Bear Car Wash logo Buddy Bear Car Wash ▲3 +15.1%
2 C Crew Carwash logo Crew Carwash - +9.6%
3 E Enterprise Rent-A-Car logo Enterprise Rent-A-Car - +8.0%
4 U U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer logo U-Haul Neighborhood Dealer ▲1 +7.9%
5 T The Duke of Oil ▲4 +7.6%
6 T Take 5 Oil Change logo Take 5 Oil Change ▲1 +7.3%
7 O O'Reilly Auto Parts logo O'Reilly Auto Parts - +6.3%
8 W Waterway Carwash logo Waterway Carwash - +4.2%
9 R Ricky Rockets Fuel Center logo Ricky Rockets Fuel Center ▼1 +4.1%
10 R Rainstorm Car Wash logo Rainstorm Car Wash ▲1 +3.4%
11 V Valvoline Instant Oil Change logo Valvoline Instant Oil Change - +3.1%
12 H Honda logo Honda ▼1 +2.9%
13 A AutoZone logo AutoZone - +2.8%
14 S Shell logo Shell - +2.1%
15 L Love's Travel Stop logo Love's Travel Stop ▲1 -0.2%

Store footprint

Store map

2,216 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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