Trends · data through September 2026

Gyms in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 586 stores from 338 gym chains in Illinois. Gold's Gym grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Fitness 19 and YMCA.

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
338
Tracked stores
586
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gym 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. Gold's Gym and Fitness 19 sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Gold's Gym - +16.0%
2 Fitness 19 ▲3 +15.4%
3 YMCA - +9.1%
4 Shred415 ▲1 -7.3%
5 Anytime Fitness ▲1 -10.4%
6 First Ascent ▲1 -16.2%
7 Club Fitness - -19.1%
8 Planet Fitness - -20.5%
9 The Edge Fitness Clubs ▲1 -21.3%
10 Aira Fitness ▼2 -25.5%
11 Fitness Premier ▼2 -41.6%
12 Blink Fitness - -43.8%
13 LA Fitness ▼3 -84.1%
  • YMCA
  • United Center
  • Life Time
  • Planet Fitness
  • Midtown Athletic Club
  • Fitness Formula Clubs
  • Crunch Fitness
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

586 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 178 of the 586 stores (30%); 306 of the 338 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are gyms, the same share as across the United States.

  • YMCA (29)
  • United Center (2)
  • Life Time (16)
  • Planet Fitness (79)
  • Midtown Athletic Club (4)
  • Fitness Formula Clubs (2)
  • Crunch Fitness (10)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Planet Fitness 79
  • 2 Anytime Fitness 31
  • 3 YMCA 29
  • 4 LA Fitness 23
  • 5 Life Time 16
  • 6 Crunch Fitness 10
  • 7 Blink Fitness 5
  • 8 Fitness Premier 5
  • 9 Aira Fitness 5
  • 10 Shred415 4
  • 11 SPENGA 4
  • 12 Equinox 4
  • 13 Midtown Athletic Club 4
  • 14 First Ascent 4
  • 15 UFC GYM 3
  • 16 Fitness 19 3
  • 17 The Edge Fitness Clubs 3
  • 18 Club Fitness 3
  • 19 Gold's Gym 3
  • 20 United Center 2
  • 21 Body Tech Total Fitness 2
  • 22 Powerhouse Gym 2
  • 23 Fitness Formula Clubs 2
  • 24 Ethos Training Systems 2
  • 25 My Gym Children's Fitness Center 2
  • 26 Defy Gravity 2
  • 27 Cross Kicks Fitness 2
  • 28 FIT at 500 1
  • 29 B.R. Ryall YMCA 1
  • 30 Huntley Cheer Association 1
  • 31 FLO Fitness and Martial Arts 1
  • 32 Harbor Fitness 1
  • 33 Mireya's Dance Fit Studio 1
  • 34 Surge to New Levels Gym 1
  • 35 CFX Homer Glen 1
  • 36 Lily Pad Mahjong Parlor 1
  • 37 Ultimate Ninjas Libertyville 1
  • 38 One Touch Fight Team & Academy 1
  • 39 Shorewood Fitness 1
  • 40 Redline Athletics Buffalo Grove 1
  • 41 Ferrara Pan Fitness Factory 1
  • 42 Outwork Fitness 1
  • 43 Unknown Strength 1
  • 44 Krazy Town Trampoline Park 1
  • 45 EastSide Centre 1
  • 46 Lifezone 360 1
  • 47 Evanston Athletic Club 1
  • 48 Rockwell Barbell 1
  • 49 TAM Tennis & Fitness Center 1
  • 50 IR Fitness Training Center 1

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