Trends · data through August 2026

Retail & consumer trends in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 28,190 stores from 13,971 retail and consumer chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Tony's Fresh Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Aritzia and QuikTrip.

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
13,971
Tracked stores
28,190
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked retail and consumer 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. Tony's Fresh Market and Aritzia sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tony's Fresh Market logo Tony's Fresh Market ▲4 +19.8%
2 A Aritzia logo Aritzia ▲19 +19.6%
3 Q QuikTrip logo QuikTrip ▲12 +19.5%
4 A Angelo Caputo's Fresh Markets logo Angelo Caputo's Fresh Markets ▲14 +18.7%
5 P Pete's Market logo Pete's Market ▲6 +17.2%
6 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲6 +17.1%
7 R Round1 logo Round1 ▲8 +16.1%
8 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲10 +15.6%
9 N Northwestern Medicine logo Northwestern Medicine ▲13 +15.3%
10 T The Home Depot logo The Home Depot - +15.1%
11 P Pete's Fresh Market logo Pete's Fresh Market ▲11 +14.8%
12 H Hobby Lobby logo Hobby Lobby ▲10 +14.2%
13 O Office Depot logo Office Depot ▲5 +14.0%
14 G Goodwill logo Goodwill ▲10 +13.8%
15 M Menards logo Menards - +11.4%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 28,190 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category group.

Top tracked chains by store count

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