Trends · data through August 2026

Clothing Stores in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 709 stores from 167 clothing stores chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Gap grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Abercrombie & Fitch and dd's DISCOUNTS.

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
167
Tracked stores
709
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked clothing stores 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. Gap and Abercrombie & Fitch sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Gap logo Gap ▲3 +19.1%
2 A Abercrombie & Fitch logo Abercrombie & Fitch ▲2 +15.2%
3 D dd's DISCOUNTS logo dd's DISCOUNTS - +11.2%
4 R Rainbow Shops logo Rainbow Shops ▲1 +10.2%
5 L lululemon logo lululemon ▲3 +10.1%
6 M Men's Wearhouse logo Men's Wearhouse ▲4 +9.5%
7 C Charlotte Russe logo Charlotte Russe ▲2 +9.5%
8 D Duluth Trading Company logo Duluth Trading Company ▲1 +8.5%
9 C Clothes Mentor - +8.0%
10 R Ross Dress for Less logo Ross Dress for Less - +7.1%
11 O Old Navy logo Old Navy - +5.2%
12 C Citi Trends logo Citi Trends ▲1 +4.1%
13 B Banana Republic logo Banana Republic - +3.6%
14 L LOFT logo LOFT - +3.0%
15 M Maurices logo Maurices ▲1 +2.5%
  • Ross Dress for Less
  • Burlington
  • Old Navy
  • Zara
  • lululemon
  • Victoria's Secret
  • American Eagle
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Ross Dress for Less (69)
  • Burlington (48)
  • Old Navy (55)
  • Zara (4)
  • lululemon (10)
  • Victoria's Secret (23)
  • American Eagle (14)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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