SBA by industry · IL
SBA lenders for restaurants in Illinois
124 lenders made 765 SBA loans to restaurants in Illinois in the 36 months ending September 30, 2026. The Huntington National Bank made the most, with 191. The typical loan was about $320K.
- Evidence
- SBA 7(a) and 504 loans to restaurants in Illinois, NAICS 722
- Data as of
- SBA, September 30, 2026
- Page last changed
- November 12, 2026
- Lenders on record
- 124
- SBA FOIA,
- SBA loans, 36 months
- 765
- SBA FOIA,
- 7(a) net of cancelled; 504 funded first liens
- Dollars, 36 months
- $442M
- SBA FOIA,
- Last 12 months
- 210
- SBA FOIA,
Cite this
Source: The Lender Report, SBA lenders for restaurants in Illinois, https://lender.report/sba-lenders-for/restaurants/illinois/, data as of September 30, 2026.
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Dollars are approval amounts, rounded to 2 significant figures per loan, net of cancelled approvals.
| Industry | Loans |
|---|---|
| Full-Service Restaurants | 374 |
| Limited-Service Restaurants | 207 |
| Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars | 95 |
| Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) | 39 |
| Caterers | 25 |
| Food Service Contractors | 13 |
| Mobile Food Services | 11 |
| Loan size | Loans |
|---|---|
| Under $150K | 233 |
| $150K to $350K | 158 |
| $350K to $1M | 252 |
| $1M to $2.5M | 84 |
| $2.5M or more | 33 |
- SBA lenders recorded 765 loans to restaurants totaling $441.9M in Illinois in the 36 months ending September 30, 2026, excluding cancelled approvals. SBA FOIA,
- The typical loan was about $320K, with the middle half between $100K and $700K. SBA FOIA,
- 701 were SBA 7(a) loans and 59 were SBA 504 first liens. SBA FOIA,
- SBA 7(a) lenders reported a median initial rate of 10.00% on 701 loans. SBA FOIA,
- The median term was 10 years. SBA FOIA,
- Banks and savings institutions made 706 of the loans, credit unions 3, and non-banks 47. SBA FOIA,
- The five most active lenders made 45.1% of the loans. SBA FOIA,
- The three most active lenders were The Huntington National Bank with 191, Newtek Bank, National Association with 45, and Byline Bank with 42. SBA FOIA,
- 233 of the loans were under $150K, and 117 were $1M or more. SBA FOIA,
- 9 of these loans were made by lenders that have since merged or closed, that the file lists under a name with no lender record here, or that the loan tape shows only at a broader industry level. They are counted in the totals here and appear in no lender's row. SBA FOIA,
- The SBA file shows 210 approvals of these loans dated in the 12 months to September 30, 2026, versus 300 in the 12 months before. Both counts leave out cancelled approvals and include 504 approvals not yet funded. SBA FOIA,
- 58 of the 124 lenders are based in Illinois. The rest are based elsewhere, most often in California, Missouri and Indiana. SBA FOIA,
- The most common detailed industry in Illinois was Full-Service Restaurants, with 374 loans. SBA FOIA,
How this list is defined
- Measure
- SBA loans made to restaurants in Illinois
- Period
- October 2023 to September 2026
- Formula
- Count, by lender, of SBA 7(a) approvals and SBA 504 first liens located in Illinois, dated in the 36 months ending September 30, 2026 and not cancelled, whose NAICS code in the SBA file falls in NAICS 722.
- Order
- Largest first by loans in the state, then dollars, then name. Payment is not part of the order.
- As of
- September 30, 2026
- Source
- SBA FOIA
- Changelog
- : First published, with the data built on this date.
What we don't know
- Whether any of these lenders is taking new SBA loans today, or how it would treat a business like yours.
- Loans that were never completed. The SBA file lists approvals, and these pages leave out the ones it marks cancelled.
- The borrower, the address and every term beyond rate and term. The public file does not show them.
Every loan counted here carried one of these NAICS codes in the SBA file, and the state of the loan is the state of the business. Loans are approvals, net of cancelled approvals. Lenders that merged or stopped filing are left out.
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