Trends · data through September 2026

Hair Salons in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 1,147 stores from 744 hair salon chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Drybar Shops grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Zazu Salon and Day Spa and Hair Cuttery.

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
744
Tracked stores
1,147
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked hair salon 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. Drybar Shops and Zazu Salon and Day Spa sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Drybar Shops ▲2 +8.6%
2 Zazu Salon and Day Spa - +7.9%
3 Hair Cuttery - +2.3%
4 Great Clips - +0.2%
5 Sport Clips Haircuts - -3.3%
6 Supercuts - -3.7%
7 KidSnips ▲2 -4.7%
8 Urmi Salon ▼1 -6.1%
9 Fantastic Sams - -6.8%
10 Lisa Thomas Salon - -12.6%
11 Park Jun Korean Hair Salon ▼1 -12.7%
12 Dina's Great Cuts - -14.8%
13 Cost Cutters - -22.9%
14 Frank Gironda Salon & Spa ▼2 -30.3%
  • Great Clips
  • Sport Clips Haircuts
  • Hair Cuttery
  • Zazu Salon and Day Spa
  • Supercuts
  • Mena's Hair Design
  • Salon Bliss
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,147 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 340 of the 1,147 stores (30%); 697 of the 744 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, the same share as across Illinois.

  • Great Clips (147)
  • Sport Clips Haircuts (94)
  • Hair Cuttery (64)
  • Zazu Salon and Day Spa (4)
  • Supercuts (27)
  • Mena's Hair Design (6)
  • Salon Bliss (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Great Clips 147
  • 2 Sport Clips Haircuts 94
  • 3 Hair Cuttery 64
  • 4 Supercuts 27
  • 5 Fantastic Sams 8
  • 6 KidSnips 7
  • 7 Mena's Hair Design 6
  • 8 MasterCuts 5
  • 9 Cost Cutters 4
  • 10 Urmi Salon 4
  • 11 Drybar Shops 4
  • 12 Zazu Salon and Day Spa 4
  • 13 Frank Gironda Salon & Spa 4
  • 14 Dina's Great Cuts 3
  • 15 Jeffrey LaMorte Salon & Day Spa 3
  • 16 Lisa Thomas Salon 3
  • 17 Park Jun Korean Hair Salon 3
  • 18 Misano Salon 2
  • 19 Salon Hype 2
  • 20 Barbara & Barbara Hair Parlor 2
  • 21 Michael Graham Salon 2
  • 22 Pigtails & Crewcuts 2
  • 23 Hair Express 2
  • 24 The Gallery 2
  • 25 Femme Beauty Lounge 2
  • 26 Salon 2
  • 27 BloOuts Blow Dry Bar 2
  • 28 HoneyCuts 2
  • 29 The Salon 2
  • 30 American Cuts 2
  • 31 Andreas Hogue Salon 2
  • 32 Salon M 2
  • 33 State Street Barbers 2
  • 34 Salon V 2
  • 35 Ten Friends Blow Dry & Style House 2
  • 36 Asha SalonSpa 2
  • 37 Taylor Reese Salon 2
  • 38 Art + Science Salon 2
  • 39 Cleopatra Hair Designs 1
  • 40 Skyline Hair Designer 1
  • 41 Halo Salon 1
  • 42 Headquarter Salon 1
  • 43 Opulent Beauty 1
  • 44 Salon Zara 1
  • 45 Lira Guzi Salon 1
  • 46 Jack of All Fades 1
  • 47 Elegance Salon & Barbershop 1
  • 48 Warm & Fuzzy Nails 1
  • 49 Michael Thomas Salon and Day Spa 1
  • 50 The Professional Edge 1

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