Trends · data through September 2026

Chicken & Wings Fast Food in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 693 stores from 105 chicken & wings fast food chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Dave's Hot Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chick-fil-A and Harold's Chicken Shack.

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
105
Tracked stores
693
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked chicken & wings fast food 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. Dave's Hot Chicken and Chick-fil-A sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken - +14.5%
2 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +9.9%
3 H Harold's Chicken Shack logo Harold's Chicken Shack - +9.3%
4 F Fry the Coop - +8.5%
5 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken - +4.8%
6 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - +1.8%
7 S Sharks Fish & Chicken - -0.4%
8 W Wingz It Iz ▲2 -8.7%
9 W Wingstop logo Wingstop - -8.9%
10 K KFC logo KFC - -10.4%
11 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers - -11.0%
12 B Byrd's Hot Chicken logo Byrd's Hot Chicken ▲2 -24.9%
13 S Sharks Fish and Chicken - -32.8%
14 N Nando's logo Nando's - -55.6%
15 H Hangry Joe's Hot Chicken & Wings logo Hangry Joe's Hot Chicken & Wings ▼2 -57.7%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • Wingstop
  • KFC
  • Sharks Fish & Chicken
  • Harold's Chicken Shack
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

693 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chick-fil-A (63)
  • Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen (141)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (33)
  • Wingstop (125)
  • KFC (61)
  • Sharks Fish & Chicken (21)
  • Harold's Chicken Shack (41)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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