Trends · data through September 2026

Collectibles & Hobby in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 36 stores from 9 collectibles & hobby chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Graham Crackers Comics grew fastest over the last year, ahead of BoxLunch and HobbyTown.

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
9
Tracked stores
36
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked collectibles & hobby 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. Graham Crackers Comics and BoxLunch sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Graham Crackers Comics logo Graham Crackers Comics - +13.8%
2 B BoxLunch logo BoxLunch - +7.4%
3 H HobbyTown - +2.4%
4 W Warhammer logo Warhammer - -15.3%
5 F FYE logo FYE - -36.6%
  • BoxLunch
  • Graham Crackers Comics
  • HobbyTown
  • Warhammer
  • Kpop Nara
  • The Exchange
  • The Village
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • BoxLunch (7)
  • Graham Crackers Comics (7)
  • HobbyTown (4)
  • Warhammer (8)
  • Kpop Nara (2)
  • The Exchange (1)
  • The Village (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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