Veterinary Clinic Feasibility Study in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about veterinary clinic lending in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

How Chicago-Naperville-Elgin ranks for veterinary clinic

Behind 58 SBA approvals worth $67.1 million between FY2017 and FY2026, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN stands 8 of 485 among metro and micro areas. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin's veterinary clinic share of loans is 0.54x the share seen nationally: Chicago-Naperville-Elgin tilts away from the class. Inside Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, the class ranks 18 of 39, a middling line. The Chicago-Naperville-Elgin area crosses IL and IN, one count, several states.

In Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, the median loan is $730,500, with the middle half running from $282,000 to $1.5 million. The local median is 1.18x the median nationally for the class, so Chicago-Naperville-Elgin tickets run bigger. By program, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin shows 45 SBA 7(a) loans against 13 SBA 504 loans, a lender focus. For Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, 504 means property and heavy equipment. Franchising among loans in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin is 0.00%, a read on branding. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin borrowers can read that as context.

Veterinary clinic lenders in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin

Among 7(a) loans in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, the holders on record, by loans, are Live Oak Banking Company: 9 loans, $20.4 million; and The Huntington National Bank: 8 loans, $9.9 million. For SBA 504 in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, Small Business Growth Corporation: 6 loans, $3.8 million. Every Chicago-Naperville-Elgin row is an SBA record. These Chicago-Naperville-Elgin loans sit with the lenders named. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin figures show files, not conduct. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin rows state no lender requirement. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin place by place: Cook County, IL leads with 21 loans; next come DuPage County, IL at 10, Lake County, IL at 9 and Lake County, IN at 6.

Year by year, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin shows FY2017 (6 loans, $5.3 million), FY2018 (10 loans, $4.7 million), FY2019 (6 loans, $7.1 million), FY2021 (6 loans, $5.9 million), FY2022 (9 loans, $12.8 million) and FY2023 (5 loans, $10.8 million). FY2020 and FY2024 through FY2026 are withheld for Chicago-Naperville-Elgin because few loans back them, so Chicago-Naperville-Elgin's blanks are not quiet years. Among all FY2017 to FY2024 approvals in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin saw cancellation after approval of at least 20.4%; treat it as a floor. The ceiling, with undisbursed loans counted, is 20.4%. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin has no published charge-off floor. In Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, a thin cohort means unpublished. All Chicago-Naperville-Elgin totals use the 2023 federal list, so each Chicago-Naperville-Elgin loan is placed by county, and Chicago-Naperville-Elgin excludes any county it cannot match.

What a Chicago-Naperville-Elgin veterinary clinic study must prove

From this veterinary clinic record in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, a study moves to a single parcel. The Chicago-Naperville-Elgin file should document emergency services nearby and their pull. For Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, we would first examine the equipment list and its useful lives. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin lenders need the study to show goodwill, where an existing practice is bought. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin analysis should establish what happens if one doctor leaves. In Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, we start by examining revenue per doctor at a modest caseload. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin work runs demand, cost, coverage, value. No Chicago-Naperville-Elgin approval is promised here.

SBA veterinary clinic loans in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202658
Gross dollars approved$67.1 million
Median loan$730,500
Middle half of loans, from$282,000
Middle half of loans, to$1.5 million
SBA 7(a) loans45
SBA 504 loans13
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for veterinary clinic loans8 of 485
Rank of veterinary clinic among the classes in this area18 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)0.54x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.18x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)20.4%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)20.4%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)withheld

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

SBA veterinary clinic loans approved in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN Metro Area, by fiscal year

0246810FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 6Loans, FY2018: 10Loans, FY2019: 6Loans, FY2021: 6Loans, FY2022: 9Loans, FY2023: 5
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20176$5.3 million
FY201810$4.7 million
FY20196$7.1 million
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY20216$5.9 million
FY20229$12.8 million
FY20235$10.8 million
FY2024withheldwithheld
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Small Business Growth Corporation6$3.8 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Live Oak Banking Company9$20.4 million
The Huntington National Bank8$9.9 million

Lenders with 5 or more loans here; a lender with fewer is not listed, and loans SBA or a receiver holds are counted but never listed as a lender.

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
Cook County, IL21
DuPage County, IL10
Lake County, IL9
Lake County, IN6

Counties with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are not listed.

Metro is the CBSA (metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area) of the loan's project county, July 2023 delineation (OMB Bulletin 23-01). The county is matched by name (manifests/ld2/county-cbsa-map.csv); a loan whose county cannot be placed in a 2023 CBSA is left out of every metro.

A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; areas from the U.S. Census Bureau CBSA delineation, July 2023 (OMB Bulletin 23-01); Loan Analytics metro cell MA-16980-C21.

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