Trends · data through September 2026

Christian Places of Worship in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 505 stores from 471 Christian place of worship chains in Illinois. Iglesia Universal grew fastest over the last year, ahead of First Baptist Church and New Life Community Church.

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
471
Tracked stores
505
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Christian place of worship 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. Iglesia Universal and First Baptist Church sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Iglesia Universal - +16.0%
2 First Baptist Church - -11.3%
3 New Life Community Church - -19.7%
  • New Life Covenant Church
  • Calvary Church
  • Christ Community Church
  • Moraine Valley Church
  • Living Word Christian Center
  • Trinity United Church-Christ
  • New Life Community Church
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

505 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 18 of the 505 stores (4%); 445 of the 471 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked other stores here are Christian places of worship, the same share as across the United States.

  • New Life Covenant Church (2)
  • Calvary Church (2)
  • Christ Community Church (1)
  • Moraine Valley Church (1)
  • Living Word Christian Center (1)
  • Trinity United Church-Christ (1)
  • New Life Community Church (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Iglesia Universal 4
  • 2 New Life Community Church 4
  • 3 Willow Creek Community Church 4
  • 4 St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church 3
  • 5 First Baptist Church 3
  • 6 Life Church 2
  • 7 Bill Winston Ministries 2
  • 8 Discovery Church 2
  • 9 St. Joseph Catholic Church 2
  • 10 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 2
  • 11 St Paul Ame Church 2
  • 12 Cornerstone Church 2
  • 13 Springbrook Community Church 2
  • 14 Mt Sinai Hospital 2
  • 15 Life Changers International Church 2
  • 16 Connect Church 2
  • 17 Parkview Christian Church 2
  • 18 The Compass Church 2
  • 19 Calvary Church 2
  • 20 New Life Covenant Church 2
  • 21 Westbrook Christian Church 1
  • 22 The Faith Community of Saint Sabina 1
  • 23 The Packinghouse 1
  • 24 Restoration Tabernacle 1
  • 25 Second Baptist Church 1
  • 26 Deliverance Temple Church 1
  • 27 Christ Community Church 1
  • 28 The Grove Church 1
  • 29 Evanston Vineyard 1
  • 30 Heartland Church 1
  • 31 Village Bible Church 1
  • 32 Second Christian Church 1
  • 33 Visitation Catholic Church 1
  • 34 The Arising Church 1
  • 35 True Foundation Transformation Church 1
  • 36 Our Lady of Tepeyac Parish 1
  • 37 St Mary Church 1
  • 38 Ravenswood Baptist Church 1
  • 39 Casa de Gracia 1
  • 40 Victory In Christ Kingdom Church 1
  • 41 Immanuel Lutheran Church 1
  • 42 Universal 1
  • 43 Martin Luther Lutheran Church 1
  • 44 Family Worship Center 1
  • 45 Home of Life MB Church 1
  • 46 Grace Church of DuPage 1
  • 47 Restore Church 1
  • 48 St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church 1
  • 49 World Harvest Church 1
  • 50 St Benedict The African 1

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