Trends · data through September 2026

Leisure & Travel trends in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 3,170 stores from 2,494 leisure & travel chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Holiday Inn Express & Suites grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Classic Cinemas and Disc Replay.

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
2,494
Tracked stores
3,170
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked leisure & travel 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. Holiday Inn Express & Suites and Classic Cinemas sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Holiday Inn Express & Suites ▲7 +15.6%
2 Classic Cinemas ▲3 +15.1%
3 Disc Replay ▲4 +14.8%
4 Best Western ▲7 +14.8%
5 Kids Empire ▲4 +14.2%
6 Days Inn ▲2 +12.3%
7 Choice Hotels ▲3 +12.0%
8 Home2 Suites by Hilton ▲2 +11.4%
9 Westin ▲2 +9.7%
10 Motel 6 ▲3 +9.6%
11 Courtyard by Marriott ▲2 +9.4%
12 Lincoln Park ▲2 +8.8%
13 Super 8 ▲3 +7.8%
14 SpringHill Suites ▲4 +6.4%
15 Pinstripes ▲1 +6.1%

Store footprint

Store map

3,170 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 204 of the 3,170 stores (6%); 2,351 of the 2,494 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked leisure & travel stores here are golf courses, against 8% across Illinois.

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