Trends · data through August 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 114 stores from 39 electronics stores chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Verizon grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Best Buy and Apple.

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
39
Tracked stores
114
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked electronics 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. Verizon and Best Buy sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 V Verizon logo Verizon - +18.5%
2 B Best Buy logo Best Buy - -3.0%
3 A Apple logo Apple - -5.5%
4 D Disc Replay ▲1 -9.6%
5 B Boost Mobile logo Boost Mobile ▼1 -24.4%
6 T T-Mobile logo T-Mobile - -37.1%
  • Best Buy
  • Abt Electronics
  • Micro Center
  • Apple
  • GameStop
  • T-Mobile
  • Apple Michigan Avenue
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Best Buy (29)
  • Abt Electronics (1)
  • Micro Center (2)
  • Apple (6)
  • GameStop (28)
  • T-Mobile (4)
  • Apple Michigan Avenue (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 B Best Buy logo Best Buy 29
  • 2 G GameStop logo GameStop 28
  • 3 A Apple logo Apple 6
  • 4 D Disc Replay 6
  • 5 T T-Mobile logo T-Mobile 4
  • 6 V Verizon logo Verizon 3
  • 7 B Boost Mobile logo Boost Mobile 3
  • 8 B Batteries Plus Bulbs 2
  • 9 T There's Fun In Store 2
  • 10 M Micro Center logo Micro Center 2
  • 11 D Direct Phone Fix 1
  • 12 A All Pro Cell Phone Repair 1
  • 13 R Reliquary Gaming 1
  • 14 V Videogames Then & Now 1
  • 15 S Stereo Rehab 1
  • 16 P Prism Games Chicago 1
  • 17 A ABC Cellular 1
  • 18 X Xtreme Games 1
  • 19 B Boar's Hat Gaming 1
  • 20 S Spellbound Games 1
  • 21 B Back in The Game Video Games & Repair 1
  • 22 P Paper or Plastic Sports and Games 1
  • 23 A Affinity For Gaming 1
  • 24 N Next Generation Gaming 1
  • 25 T Timeless Entertainment Video Games & Collectibles 1
  • 26 N Nerd Rage Gaming 1
  • 27 A Abt Electronics logo Abt Electronics 1
  • 28 G Good Games Chicago 1
  • 29 G Game Storm 1
  • 30 B Brookstone 1
  • 31 C Cricket Wireless logo Cricket Wireless 1
  • 32 H Headphone Hub 1
  • 33 I InMotion logo InMotion 1
  • 34 S State Street Deals 1
  • 35 M Metro by T-Mobile logo Metro by T-Mobile 1
  • 36 A Apple Deer Park 1
  • 37 A Apple Michigan Avenue 1
  • 38 U UScellular logo UScellular 1
  • 39 A Apple Lincoln Park 1

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