Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked art craft hobby 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. Hobby Lobby and Blick Art Materials sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hobby Lobby | - | +19.6% |
| 2 | Blick Art Materials | ▲1 | +16.9% |
| 3 | Michaels | - | +3.1% |
| 4 | Paper Source | ▲1 | -6.1% |
| 5 | Chicago Costume | ▲2 | -7.3% |
| 6 | American Science & Surplus | - | -74.7% |
| 7 | The Gaming Goat | ▲1 | -82.5% |
| 8 | JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores | ▼5 | -100.0% |
- Hobby Lobby
- Michaels
- Blick Art Materials
- Color Me Mine
- Paper Source
- Pastimes
- Prairie Gardens
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
352 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 146 of the 352 stores (41%); 183 of the 196 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked retail stores here are art craft hobby stores, the same share as across the United States.
- Hobby Lobby (43)
- Michaels (49)
- Blick Art Materials (6)
- Color Me Mine (9)
- Paper Source (10)
- Pastimes (1)
- Prairie Gardens (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Michaels 49
- 2 Hobby Lobby 43
- 3 JOANN Fabric and Craft Stores 35
- 4 Paper Source 10
- 5 Color Me Mine 9
- 6 Blick Art Materials 6
- 7 The Gaming Goat 3
- 8 American Science & Surplus 3
- 9 Chicago Costume 3
- 10 Wool and Company 2
- 11 The Painted Penguin 2
- 12 The WasteShed 2
- 13 The Great Frame Up 2
- 14 Pastimes 1
- 15 Roberts Sewing Center 1
- 16 Thunder Road Hobbies 1
- 17 Victor J Andrew Craft Show 1
- 18 Stitching On State 1
- 19 Nick's Embroidery 1
- 20 Fox Valley Pottery 1
- 21 Fiber Friends Studio 1
- 22 a. favorite design 1
- 23 Bead In Hand 1
- 24 Cut It Out Scrapbook Supplies 1
- 25 Red Board Hobbies 1
- 26 Quilter's General Store 1
- 27 AU Sports 1
- 28 The Underground Dojo 1
- 29 EmbroidMe 1
- 30 Sew on Central 1
- 31 Incas Andes 1
- 32 Triple C 1
- 33 The Crystal Cellar 1
- 34 Leading Men Fiber Arts 1
- 35 Yarns Untold 1
- 36 A Different Box of Crayons 1
- 37 Gemini Builds It 1
- 38 El Artesanal 1
- 39 knit1 1
- 40 Top Notch Knots & Pots 1
- 41 Ron's Mundelein Hobbies 1
- 42 Tastebud Tours 1
- 43 Booming Acres 1
- 44 Piece By Piece 1
- 45 Quilters Haven 1
- 46 America's Best Train, Toy & Hobby Shop 1
- 47 Calico Country Sewing and Vacuum 1
- 48 Thrown Elements Pottery 1
- 49 Thimbles Quilts 1
- 50 Dizzy Dugout 1
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