Metro by metro
The leading hair salon chains in every Illinois metro area
Tracked hair salon chains ranked by consumer spend in each metro area, Q4 2025–Q3 2026. Great Clips leads in 6 metro areas, Sport Clips Haircuts in 1 metro area, and Style and Grace Salon & Day Spa in 1 metro area. Against their share in Illinois as a whole, Great Clips stands out in 6 metro areas, Hair Cuttery in 1 metro area.
By tracked consumer spend, Q4 2025–Q3 2026
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Great Clips
Relative #1 in 6 metro areas
St. Louis, MO-IL (IL part) 1.8× · Peoria, IL 2.7× · Bloomington, IL 1.8× · Rockford, IL 3.1× · Springfield, IL 1.6× · Kankakee, IL 1.5×
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Hair Cuttery
Relative #1 in Chicago, IL (IL part), 1.1× its share in Illinois
Not enough tracked stores: Cape Girardeau, MO-IL (IL part) · Davenport, IA (IL part) · Decatur, IL · Paducah, KY-IL (IL part)
No ranked chain with 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there: Champaign-Urbana, IL
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Great Clips
#1 in 6 metro areas
Chicago, IL (IL part) · St. Louis, MO-IL (IL part) · Peoria, IL · Bloomington, IL · Rockford, IL · Springfield, IL
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Sport Clips Haircuts
#1 in Kankakee, IL
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Style and Grace Salon & Day Spa
#1 in Champaign-Urbana, IL
Not enough tracked stores: Cape Girardeau, MO-IL (IL part) · Davenport, IA (IL part) · Decatur, IL · Paducah, KY-IL (IL part)
A metro area shows a ranking once it has at least 2 tracked hair salon chains and 10 tracked stores. Relative to Illinois compares a chain's share of the metro area's spend with its share in Illinois as a whole. It ranks the 7 biggest chains in Illinois and the chains that lead a metro area by spend, wherever a chain has at least 5% of the metro area's spend and 3 stores there. Metro areas are the Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical areas; the rest of Illinois is light gray. A metro area crossing the state line counts only its stores in Illinois. Colors match the store map; other tracked chains are gray.
Growth ranking
Fastest-growing tracked hair salon 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. Zazu Salon and Day Spa and Hair Cuttery sit in the high-growth half.
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
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| 1 | Zazu Salon and Day Spa | ▲1 | +8.1% |
| 2 | Hair Cuttery | - | +3.3% |
| 3 | Great Clips | - | -1.1% |
| 4 | Sport Clips Haircuts | - | -2.8% |
| 5 | KidSnips | ▲2 | -4.5% |
| 6 | Fantastic Sams | - | -5.9% |
| 7 | Urmi Salon | ▲1 | -6.0% |
| 8 | Supercuts | ▼1 | -9.8% |
| 9 | Drybar Shops | ▲1 | -10.8% |
| 10 | Lisa Thomas Salon | - | -12.4% |
| 11 | Park Jun Korean Hair Salon | - | -12.6% |
| 12 | Asha SalonSpa | - | -14.6% |
| 13 | Dina's Great Cuts | - | -14.7% |
| 14 | Cost Cutters | ▼2 | -23.0% |
| 15 | Frank Gironda Salon & Spa | ▼2 | -30.1% |
- Great Clips
- Sport Clips Haircuts
- Hair Cuttery
- Zazu Salon and Day Spa
- Supercuts
- Mena's Hair Design
- Salon Bliss
- Other tracked chains
Store footprint
Store map
1,318 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 434 of the 1,318 stores (33%); 765 of the 812 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are hair salons, against 8% across the United States.
- Great Clips (218)
- Sport Clips Haircuts (111)
- Hair Cuttery (59)
- Zazu Salon and Day Spa (4)
- Supercuts (30)
- Mena's Hair Design (5)
- Salon Bliss (1)
- Other tracked chains
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Great Clips 218
- 2 Sport Clips Haircuts 111
- 3 Hair Cuttery 59
- 4 Supercuts 30
- 5 SmartStyle 16
- 6 Fantastic Sams 9
- 7 KidSnips 7
- 8 Cost Cutters 6
- 9 Mena's Hair Design 5
- 10 MasterCuts 5
- 11 Zazu Salon and Day Spa 4
- 12 Urmi Salon 4
- 13 Frank Gironda Salon & Spa 4
- 14 Drybar Shops 3
- 15 Asha SalonSpa 3
- 16 Lisa Thomas Salon 3
- 17 Jeffrey LaMorte Salon & Day Spa 3
- 18 Dina's Great Cuts 3
- 19 Park Jun Korean Hair Salon 3
- 20 Salon M 2
- 21 Michael Graham Salon 2
- 22 Barbara & Barbara Hair Parlor 2
- 23 Misano Salon 2
- 24 State Street Barbers 2
- 25 The Salon 2
- 26 Pigtails & Crewcuts 2
- 27 Taylor Reese Salon 2
- 28 BloOuts Blow Dry Bar 2
- 29 American Cuts 2
- 30 The Gallery 2
- 31 Salon V 2
- 32 Femme Beauty Lounge 2
- 33 Salon Hype 2
- 34 Ten Friends Blow Dry & Style House 2
- 35 Art + Science Salon 2
- 36 Andreas Hogue Salon 2
- 37 Paul Rehder Salon 2
- 38 Salon 2
- 39 Salon and Spa 530 1
- 40 In & Out Cuts 1
- 41 FM Hair Studio 1
- 42 Cora & Company Salon 1
- 43 Ippatsu Salon 1
- 44 ColorArtistix 1
- 45 Salon Volé 1
- 46 Salon Gia 1
- 47 Nash Beauty Salon 1
- 48 Red Cottage Salon and Spa 1
- 49 Hair Performers 1
- 50 Chicago Male Salon & Spa 1
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