Trends · data through September 2026

Gift Shops in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 150 stores from 109 gift shop chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Lori's Gifts grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Miniso and Hallmark.

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
109
Tracked stores
150
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gift shop 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. Lori's Gifts and Miniso sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Lori's Gifts - +17.6%
2 Miniso - -2.3%
3 Hallmark - -12.7%
4 Ten Thousand Villages - -52.8%
  • Hallmark
  • Miniso
  • Souvenir City
  • Baseball Card Exchange
  • Showcase
  • Foursided
  • Great Lakes Coin
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

150 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 43 of the 150 stores (29%); 101 of the 109 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are gift shops, the same share as across Illinois.

  • Hallmark (31)
  • Miniso (4)
  • Souvenir City (1)
  • Baseball Card Exchange (1)
  • Showcase (2)
  • Foursided (1)
  • Great Lakes Coin (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Hallmark 31
  • 2 Miniso 4
  • 3 Ten Thousand Villages 3
  • 4 Lori's Gifts 3
  • 5 Express Gifts 2
  • 6 Showcase 2
  • 7 Earthbound Trading Co. 2
  • 8 Redemption Vault 2
  • 9 Tim's Baseball Card Shop 1
  • 10 Secret Lair Collectibles 1
  • 11 Golden Hour 1
  • 12 Crush Collectibles 1
  • 13 Boric Religious Supply 1
  • 14 Femme Fatale 1
  • 15 Replica Chicago 1
  • 16 Souvenir City Chicago 1
  • 17 Stumble & Relish 1
  • 18 Bleachers Sports Music and Framing 1
  • 19 Dragon's Den Shop 1
  • 20 Travel Traders 1
  • 21 AngMir 1
  • 22 State Street Souvenirs 1
  • 23 Munster Smoke & Vape Inc. 1
  • 24 Chicago Sports & Novelty 1
  • 25 Alien Entertainment Store 1
  • 26 Ultimate Autographs 1
  • 27 Bad Luck Club 1
  • 28 Midwest Collectibles LLC Official 1
  • 29 Redtail Market 1
  • 30 Paperish Mess 1
  • 31 Carmelite Gift Shop 1
  • 32 Lisa's Boutique 1
  • 33 Ravinia Gift Shop 1
  • 34 Occasions 1
  • 35 The Birches 1
  • 36 Gifts R Us 1
  • 37 Grace Trading 1
  • 38 Mint memorabilia 1
  • 39 Card Pop USA 1
  • 40 Foursided Card + Gift 1
  • 41 Welcome to Africa 1
  • 42 ENJOY Andersonville 1
  • 43 Shaker Traditions 1
  • 44 Chicago Sports Gifts 1
  • 45 Beyond the Reef 1
  • 46 share 1
  • 47 Harry Potter Shop 1
  • 48 Logan Arch 1
  • 49 Forever Young 1
  • 50 Dollar Plus variety 1

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