Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 90 stores from 8 department stores in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Macy's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of JCPenney and Kohl's.

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
8
Tracked stores
90
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked department stores

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. Macy's and JCPenney sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Macy's - +2.1%
2 JCPenney - +0.1%
3 Kohl's - -0.9%
  • Kohl's
  • Macy's
  • JCPenney
  • Cook Brothers
  • Dufry
  • J Bees
  • Clark Fashion Depot
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

90 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. 1.0% of the tracked retail stores here are department stores, against 1% across Illinois.

  • Kohl's (48)
  • Macy's (19)
  • JCPenney (18)
  • Cook Brothers (1)
  • Dufry (1)
  • J Bees (1)
  • Clark Fashion Depot (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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