Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 812 stores from 82 discount store chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Ollie's Bargain Outlet grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Five Below and Dollar Tree.

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
82
Tracked stores
812
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked discount store 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. Ollie's Bargain Outlet and Five Below sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ollie's Bargain Outlet - +13.4%
2 Five Below - +9.0%
3 Dollar Tree - +3.0%
4 Dollar General - -1.3%
5 Dollar Day ▲1 -2.5%
6 Family Dollar - -5.0%
7 Daiso ▲1 -7.0%
8 pOpshelf - -20.2%
9 Treasure Hunt Deals ▲1 -46.0%
10 Big Lots ▼3 -100.0%
  • Dollar Tree
  • Family Dollar
  • Dollar General
  • Five Below
  • Ollie's Bargain Outlet
  • pOpshelf
  • Daiso
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

812 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 707 of the 812 stores (87%); 67 of the 82 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked retail stores here are discount stores, against 13% across Illinois.

  • Dollar Tree (256)
  • Family Dollar (189)
  • Dollar General (179)
  • Five Below (69)
  • Ollie's Bargain Outlet (7)
  • pOpshelf (10)
  • Daiso (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Dollar Tree 256
  • 2 Family Dollar 189
  • 3 Dollar General 179
  • 4 Five Below 69
  • 5 Big Lots 14
  • 6 pOpshelf 10
  • 7 Ollie's Bargain Outlet 7
  • 8 Daiso 4
  • 9 Treasure Hunt Deals 4
  • 10 Dollar Day 3
  • 11 Dollar City 2
  • 12 Everyday Black Friday 2
  • 13 Amazing Dollar Plus 2
  • 14 Happy Dollar Plus 2
  • 15 WOW Bargain Deals 2
  • 16 Public Closeout Deals 1
  • 17 Overstock Discount Center 1
  • 18 Angels Discount 1
  • 19 Dollar World 1
  • 20 Mad Friday Deals Bins & more 1
  • 21 Dollar Payless Plus 1
  • 22 The Overstock Center 1
  • 23 Dollar Value Plus 1
  • 24 Dollar Stop Plus 1
  • 25 Ron's Dollar Plus 1
  • 26 Dollar Island Armitage 1
  • 27 Town Dollar Stop 1
  • 28 Dollar and More 1
  • 29 Dollar & More 1
  • 30 Pawn King 1
  • 31 RealDeal 1
  • 32 Jerusalem Discount Plus 1
  • 33 Bins and Beyond 1
  • 34 Bargain Mania 1
  • 35 Shop 4 Less 1
  • 36 Austin Dollar Plus 1
  • 37 A&A Happy Dollar Store 1
  • 38 K&G's Overstock Outlet 1
  • 39 Treasures Depot Brookfield 1
  • 40 HomeMax 1
  • 41 Dollar Depot 1
  • 42 Chicago Ave Discount 1
  • 43 Aurora Discount 1
  • 44 Everything Dollar 1
  • 45 Moms & More Children's Resale 1
  • 46 Dollar Town Plus 1
  • 47 Mega Black Friday 1
  • 48 Bargain Deals Hub 1
  • 49 Daily Hot Deals 1
  • 50 Dollar Store Plus 1

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