Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 416 stores from 23 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Taco Burrito King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burrito Parrilla Mexicana and El Famous Burrito.

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
23
Tracked stores
416
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Mexican fast food & fast casual 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. Taco Burrito King and Burrito Parrilla Mexicana sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Taco Burrito King - +17.3%
2 B Burrito Parrilla Mexicana logo Burrito Parrilla Mexicana - +6.4%
3 E El Famous Burrito - +5.2%
4 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲1 +1.1%
5 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▼1 -2.3%
6 T Taco Pros logo Taco Pros - -3.0%
7 D DosBros logo DosBros - -11.3%
8 C Cilantro Taco Grill logo Cilantro Taco Grill - -15.4%
9 G Guzman y Gomez logo Guzman y Gomez - -30.0%
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Taco Bell
  • Burrito Parrilla Mexicana
  • Qdoba
  • Taco Burrito King
  • Cilantro Taco Grill
  • El Famous Burrito
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

416 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (169)
  • Taco Bell (155)
  • Burrito Parrilla Mexicana (10)
  • Qdoba (13)
  • Taco Burrito King (7)
  • Cilantro Taco Grill (15)
  • El Famous Burrito (11)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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