Trends · data through September 2026

Electronics Stores in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 269 stores from 170 electronics store chains in Illinois. IL Cell Phone Repair grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Batteries Plus Bulbs and Apple.

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
170
Tracked stores
269
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked electronics 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. IL Cell Phone Repair and Batteries Plus Bulbs sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 IL Cell Phone Repair - +11.9%
2 Batteries Plus Bulbs - +0.7%
3 Apple - -1.1%
4 Best Buy - -2.4%
5 There's Fun In Store - -3.6%
6 uBreakiFix - -12.9%
  • Best Buy
  • Abt Electronics
  • Apple
  • Micro Center
  • Batteries Plus Bulbs
  • Apple Deer Park
  • uBreakiFix
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

269 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 99 of the 269 stores (37%); 161 of the 170 tracked chains have a single store here. 2% of the tracked retail stores here are electronics stores, the same share as across the United States.

  • Best Buy (41)
  • Abt Electronics (1)
  • Apple (7)
  • Micro Center (2)
  • Batteries Plus Bulbs (29)
  • Apple Deer Park (1)
  • uBreakiFix (19)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Best Buy 41
  • 2 Batteries Plus Bulbs 29
  • 3 uBreakiFix 19
  • 4 Apple 7
  • 5 There's Fun In Store 3
  • 6 IL Cell Phone Repair 3
  • 7 Micro Center 2
  • 8 Whole Cell Accessories 2
  • 9 Affinity For Gaming 2
  • 10 Sky Wireless 1
  • 11 Abt Electronics 1
  • 12 Hyperionpc 1
  • 13 Space Boat Games 1
  • 14 TGS Oswego 1
  • 15 Fixit Mobile Repair 1
  • 16 SmartFix 1
  • 17 ABC Wireless 1
  • 18 Digi-Cell Phone Repair 1
  • 19 Tech Box Inc. 1
  • 20 Xtreme Mobile 1
  • 21 Tabletop Masters 1
  • 22 UTime Gamers 1
  • 23 NCI Electronics Vape & Cigars 1
  • 24 Gadget Garage 1
  • 25 Minas 1
  • 26 Talk N' Fix 1
  • 27 Air Tec Service Center 1
  • 28 Illinois Cell Phone Repair 1
  • 29 DeKalb Wireless 1
  • 30 Game Corner 1
  • 31 Bobbaloo's 1
  • 32 Airtime Wireless iPhone Repair Center 1
  • 33 Ezmobifix 1
  • 34 Empire Wireless 1
  • 35 Galeria Musical 1
  • 36 Simply Cellular 1
  • 37 Cell Phone Authority 1
  • 38 Maco Antennas and Charles Elect 1
  • 39 Mac's Family Fun Time 1
  • 40 Chips 1
  • 41 Retro City collectibles 1
  • 42 eRepair 1
  • 43 One Way Wireless 1
  • 44 Comlink Wireless Communications 1
  • 45 Cricket Wireless Authorized Retailer 1
  • 46 Connect Cell Aurora 1
  • 47 Dropped Mobile 1
  • 48 Spellbound Stories 1
  • 49 iGadgets N Repair 1
  • 50 The Fix Plus 1

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