Trends · data through September 2026

Christian Places of Worship in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 468 stores from 440 Christian place of worship chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Iglesia Universal grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Calvary Church and New Life Community Church.

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
440
Tracked stores
468
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Christian place of worship 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. Iglesia Universal and Calvary Church sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Iglesia Universal - +15.0%
2 Calvary Church - +10.4%
3 New Life Community Church - -22.4%
  • New Life Covenant Church
  • Calvary Church
  • Christ Community Church
  • Family Christian Center
  • Lighthouse
  • Moraine Valley Church
  • Living Word Christian Center
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

468 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 17 of the 468 stores (4%); 419 of the 440 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked other stores here are Christian places of worship, against 5% across Illinois.

  • New Life Covenant Church (2)
  • Calvary Church (3)
  • Christ Community Church (1)
  • Family Christian Center (1)
  • Lighthouse (1)
  • Moraine Valley Church (1)
  • Living Word Christian Center (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Iglesia Universal 4
  • 2 Willow Creek Community Church 4
  • 3 Calvary Church 3
  • 4 St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church 3
  • 5 New Life Community Church 3
  • 6 Discovery Church 2
  • 7 St. Joseph Catholic Church 2
  • 8 Bill Winston Ministries 2
  • 9 Mt Sinai Hospital 2
  • 10 First Baptist Church 2
  • 11 Life Changers International Church 2
  • 12 Parkview Christian Church 2
  • 13 The Compass Church 2
  • 14 St Paul Ame Church 2
  • 15 Springbrook Community Church 2
  • 16 New Life Church 2
  • 17 Grace Church 2
  • 18 New Life Covenant Church 2
  • 19 St Mark Church 1
  • 20 The Grove Church 1
  • 21 Evanston Vineyard 1
  • 22 Village Bible Church 1
  • 23 Visitation Catholic Church 1
  • 24 The Arising Church 1
  • 25 Deliverance Temple Church 1
  • 26 True Foundation Transformation Church 1
  • 27 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1
  • 28 Our Lady of Tepeyac Parish 1
  • 29 St Mary Church 1
  • 30 Ravenswood Baptist Church 1
  • 31 Casa de Gracia 1
  • 32 St. Mary of the Lake Parish 1
  • 33 Congregation Mita 1
  • 34 Wheaton Christian Center Church 1
  • 35 Ministerios Ebenezer 1
  • 36 An Open Door Church 1
  • 37 St Francis 1
  • 38 Martin Luther Lutheran Church 1
  • 39 Family Worship Center 1
  • 40 Dayspring Ministries Church 1
  • 41 Home of Life MB Church 1
  • 42 Grace Church of DuPage 1
  • 43 Restore Church 1
  • 44 St Patrick Church 1
  • 45 St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church 1
  • 46 St Benedict The African 1
  • 47 Vineyard Church of DuPage 1
  • 48 Village Church of Bartlett 1
  • 49 House of God 1
  • 50 Parkview Community Church 1

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