Trends · data through September 2026

Family & Value Apparel in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 211 stores from 27 family & value apparel chains in Illinois. Gap grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Factory Connection and Citi Trends.

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
27
Tracked stores
211
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked family & value apparel 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. Gap and Factory Connection sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Gap logo Gap ▲1 +16.4%
2 F Factory Connection - +9.7%
3 C Citi Trends logo Citi Trends - +3.2%
4 K K&G Fashion Superstore logo K&G Fashion Superstore - 0.0%
5 G Gap Factory logo Gap Factory - -1.8%
6 O Old Navy logo Old Navy - -6.8%
7 L Levi's logo Levi's ▼1 -8.6%
8 C Cato Fashions logo Cato Fashions - -8.6%
9 S Shoe Dept. logo Shoe Dept. - -11.0%
10 D Daily Thread - -12.0%
11 R Rainbow Shops logo Rainbow Shops - -12.7%
12 N Nautica logo Nautica - -17.1%
13 T Tommy Hilfiger logo Tommy Hilfiger - -18.2%
  • Old Navy
  • Uniqlo
  • Rainbow Shops
  • Gap
  • Levi's
  • Citi Trends
  • K&G Fashion Superstore
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

211 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Old Navy (70)
  • Uniqlo (2)
  • Rainbow Shops (36)
  • Gap (6)
  • Levi's (8)
  • Citi Trends (24)
  • K&G Fashion Superstore (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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