Trends · data through September 2026

Sport Fitness Facilities in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 169 stores from 160 sport fitness facility chains in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Elmwood Park grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Picklr and United Gymnastics Academy.

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
160
Tracked stores
169
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked sport fitness facility 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. Elmwood Park and The Picklr sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Elmwood Park - -14.4%
2 The Picklr - -24.6%
3 United Gymnastics Academy - -53.8%
  • East Bank Club
  • Funway
  • Lombard Park District
  • Bartlett Park District
  • Green Valley Golf Range
  • Midwest Training & Ice Center
  • Adlai E. Stevenson High School
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

169 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 14 of the 169 stores (8%); 155 of the 160 tracked chains have a single store here. 1% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are sport fitness facilities, the same share as across Illinois.

  • East Bank Club (1)
  • Funway (1)
  • Lombard Park District (1)
  • Bartlett Park District (1)
  • Green Valley Golf Range (1)
  • Midwest Training & Ice Center (1)
  • Adlai E. Stevenson High School (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 The Picklr 4
  • 2 United Gymnastics Academy 3
  • 3 Elmwood Park 3
  • 4 Play N Thrive Club 2
  • 5 Plainfield Athletic Club 2
  • 6 Sam Colonna Boxing 1
  • 7 Sachs Recreation Center 1
  • 8 Salt Creek Sports Center 1
  • 9 St Charles Gymnastics Academy 1
  • 10 Body By Ivory 1
  • 11 Fire House Gym 1
  • 12 Gymkhana Gymnastics 1
  • 13 Midwest Sportsplex 1
  • 14 IL HoopStars 1
  • 15 Hitz the Spot 1
  • 16 Playpen Sports Academy 1
  • 17 Bally Bunion Golf Academy 1
  • 18 Twin Rinks Ice Pavilion 1
  • 19 Chicago Golden Gloves 1
  • 20 Lighthouse Miniature Golf 1
  • 21 Channahon Pony Baseball 1
  • 22 BODY20 1
  • 23 Norris Game Room 1
  • 24 Merrillville Parks and Recreation 1
  • 25 IK Gymnastics 1
  • 26 North Wall Rock Climbing Gym 1
  • 27 American Eagles Gymnastics 1
  • 28 Barrington Park District 1
  • 29 Mountain View Mine Miniature Golf 1
  • 30 Evanston Township High School 1
  • 31 Lincolnway Special Recreation Association 1
  • 32 Gregory Boxing DuPage 1
  • 33 Rise Up Academy 1
  • 34 The Perfect Swing 1
  • 35 Climb On Rock Gym 1
  • 36 Live Better 1
  • 37 Chicagoland Golf Academy 1
  • 38 Flahive's Strength Training 1
  • 39 Valparaiso Americans Baseball 1
  • 40 UIC Student Recreation Facility 1
  • 41 Palos Sportsman's Club 1
  • 42 Brooklyn Boulders 1
  • 43 One Way Boxing Club 1
  • 44 Manduu Chicago - Libertyville 1
  • 45 Chicago Machine 1
  • 46 Pier Park Mini-Golf 1
  • 47 One Goal Training 1
  • 48 Geneva Park District 1
  • 49 Master Axe 1
  • 50 Skyline Pitch 1

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