Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 63,715 stores from 39,219 retail and consumer chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Love's Travel Stop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Coach and H Mart.

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
39,219
Tracked stores
63,715
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. Love's Travel Stop and Coach sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Love's Travel Stop ▲9 +19.8%
2 Coach ▲16 +18.9%
3 H Mart ▲20 +18.7%
4 Aritzia ▲17 +17.6%
5 Benjamin Moore ▲16 +17.4%
6 Panera Bread ▲6 +15.3%
7 Louis Vuitton ▲15 +14.9%
8 KD Market ▲4 +14.4%
9 Sunset Foods ▲15 +13.3%
10 Northwestern Medicine ▲5 +13.1%
11 Advocate Health Care ▲6 +12.8%
12 Enterprise Rent-A-Car ▲4 +12.4%
13 The Cheesecake Factory ▲11 +12.3%
14 Classic Cinemas ▲1 +11.5%
15 Ross Dress for Less ▲3 +10.7%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 63,715 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category group. The top 5 chains by store count run 2,267 of the 63,715 stores (4%); 35,796 of the 39,219 tracked chains have a single store here.

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