Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 351 stores from 162 pet store chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Wild Birds Unlimited grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Petco and Pet Supplies Plus.

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
162
Tracked stores
351
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked pet 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. Wild Birds Unlimited and Petco sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Wild Birds Unlimited ▲1 +6.3%
2 Petco - +4.4%
3 Pet Supplies Plus - +2.0%
4 Kriser's Natural Pet - +2.0%
5 Two Bostons - -0.4%
6 Hollywood Feed ▼1 -1.8%
7 The Urban Mutt - -4.3%
8 PetSmart - -4.7%
9 Bentley's Pet Stuff - -18.6%
  • PetSmart
  • Petco
  • Pet Supplies Plus
  • Kriser's Natural Pet
  • Wild Birds Unlimited
  • Hollywood Feed
  • Grayslake Feed Sales
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

351 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 166 of the 351 stores (47%); 147 of the 162 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked retail stores here are pet stores, against 3% across Illinois.

  • PetSmart (53)
  • Petco (44)
  • Pet Supplies Plus (42)
  • Kriser's Natural Pet (17)
  • Wild Birds Unlimited (8)
  • Hollywood Feed (7)
  • Grayslake Feed Sales (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 PetSmart 53
  • 2 Petco 44
  • 3 Pet Supplies Plus 42
  • 4 Kriser's Natural Pet 17
  • 5 Bentley's Pet Stuff 10
  • 6 Wild Birds Unlimited 8
  • 7 Hollywood Feed 7
  • 8 Two Bostons 6
  • 9 Brothers Country Supply 4
  • 10 The Urban Mutt 3
  • 11 Woof Life 2
  • 12 It's So Fluffy Pet Bakery 2
  • 13 Ruff Life 2
  • 14 Furry Babies 2
  • 15 Petland 2
  • 16 Bark Place 1
  • 17 All Pet Supplies 1
  • 18 EarthWise Pet and Groombar 1
  • 19 Pet's General Store 1
  • 20 Sea Escapes Inc 1
  • 21 Belmont Feed & Seed 1
  • 22 J4 Aquatics 1
  • 23 Bird Is the Word 1
  • 24 Reef Plus 1
  • 25 Wesemann Feeds 1
  • 26 Pet Paradise Supermarket 1
  • 27 Peppo's Pets 1
  • 28 Cat and Hound Market 1
  • 29 Chi-Town Dog House 1
  • 30 Furbabies 1
  • 31 Pet Wants Hinsdale 1
  • 32 Bosco’s Marketplace 1
  • 33 Pet Wants Wheaton 1
  • 34 Jules Pet Shop 1
  • 35 Sho Tank Aquariums 1
  • 36 Happiness is Pets 1
  • 37 Nature's Select Pet Care 1
  • 38 localsols 1
  • 39 Acuario Piscis 1
  • 40 Loving Care Grooming & Pet Services 1
  • 41 AquaticHQ 1
  • 42 Wagging Tails 1
  • 43 Golden Aquarium 1
  • 44 Harvard Eggs Feed and Produce 1
  • 45 Just Food For Dogs 1
  • 46 My Antler Dog Chews 1
  • 47 Pet Wants 1
  • 48 Chicago Heat Pet Shop 1
  • 49 Rob's Aquatics 1
  • 50 Doggy Detail 1

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