Trends · data through September 2026

Hardware Stores in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 435 stores from 180 hardware store chains in Illinois. Berland's House of Tools grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ace Hardware and Crawford Supply.

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
180
Tracked stores
435
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked hardware store 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. Berland's House of Tools and Ace Hardware sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Berland's House of Tools - +17.4%
2 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware - +5.0%
3 C Crawford Supply - +3.0%
4 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools - +1.9%
5 M Midwest Equipment - -5.2%
6 T True Value logo True Value - -10.2%
7 Z Ziegler's Ace logo Ziegler's Ace - -15.5%
8 R R.P. Lumber - -21.2%
  • Ace Hardware
  • Harbor Freight Tools
  • Wm F Meyer Co
  • Ziegler's Ace
  • Morton Grove Supply Co Inc
  • R.P. Lumber
  • Farm and Home Supply
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Ace Hardware (124)
  • Harbor Freight Tools (48)
  • Wm F Meyer Co (3)
  • Ziegler's Ace (8)
  • Morton Grove Supply Co Inc (1)
  • R.P. Lumber (38)
  • Farm and Home Supply (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 A Ace Hardware logo Ace Hardware 124
  • 2 H Harbor Freight Tools logo Harbor Freight Tools 48
  • 3 R R.P. Lumber 38
  • 4 T True Value logo True Value 23
  • 5 Z Ziegler's Ace logo Ziegler's Ace 8
  • 6 C Crawford Supply 4
  • 7 A AMES Tools logo AMES Tools 4
  • 8 W Wm F Meyer Co 3
  • 9 M Midwest Equipment 3
  • 10 B Berland's House of Tools 3
  • 11 W Wieland's Lawn Mower Hospital 2
  • 12 B Buchheit of Centralia 2
  • 13 C Crafty Beaver Home Center 2
  • 14 S Shorewood Home and Auto 2
  • 15 R Rusty's Home Center 2
  • 16 G Graber Building Supply 2
  • 17 F Farm and Home Supply 2
  • 18 R Redrobn Home Center INC. 1
  • 19 L Logan Hardware logo Logan Hardware 1
  • 20 H Harrisburg Hardware 1
  • 21 H Holt Supply 1
  • 22 B Brimfield Hardware Inc 1
  • 23 R Rochester Hardware & Rental 1
  • 24 K Kerr Home Center Inc 1
  • 25 K Kaskaskia Supply & Rental 1
  • 26 E E B Buildings & Lumber Co 1
  • 27 T Tonnies Hardware & Rental 1
  • 28 K Kuhl's Hardware 1
  • 29 J Johnson True Value Hardware and Gardens 1
  • 30 W Waterloo Lumber Co. 1
  • 31 A A & I Supply 1
  • 32 G Grummert's Hardware logo Grummert's Hardware 1
  • 33 J John's Hardware & Bicycle Shop 1
  • 34 P Parts Depot 1
  • 35 A Admiral Lawn Mower 1
  • 36 M Morton Grove Supply Co Inc 1
  • 37 H Harlem Plumbing Supply 1
  • 38 C City Welding Sales 1
  • 39 B Bess Hardware & Sports 1
  • 40 K Kesel Hardware 1
  • 41 D DEWALT Service Center 1
  • 42 N North Coast Chicago 1
  • 43 T Tri B Hardware & Supply 1
  • 44 H Hathaway True Value Hardware & Plbg 1
  • 45 A Albany Steel and Brass Corporation 1
  • 46 M McGuire-Western Lumber Co. 1
  • 47 D Don's Hardware 1
  • 48 M Mitchell Hardware Supply 1
  • 49 B Bull Valley Hardwood 1
  • 50 R Rental City Inc 1

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