Trends · data through August 2026

Hospitals in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 96 stores from 78 hospitals chains in Illinois. Mercy Health grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Northwestern Medicine and Advocate Health Care.

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
78
Tracked stores
96
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked hospitals 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. Mercy Health and Northwestern Medicine sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Mercy Health logo Mercy Health - +19.4%
2 N Northwestern Medicine logo Northwestern Medicine - +4.1%
3 A Advocate Health Care logo Advocate Health Care - -4.6%
  • Northwestern Medicine
  • Advocate Health Care
  • Northshore Hospital
  • Lurie Childrens Hospital
  • Edward Healthcare Center
  • UI Health
  • Riverside Medical Center
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Northwestern Medicine (10)
  • Advocate Health Care (6)
  • Northshore Hospital (1)
  • Lurie Childrens Hospital (1)
  • Edward Healthcare Center (1)
  • UI Health (1)
  • Riverside Medical Center (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 N Northwestern Medicine logo Northwestern Medicine 10
  • 2 A Advocate Health Care logo Advocate Health Care 6
  • 3 M Mercy Health logo Mercy Health 4
  • 4 K KSB Hospital 2
  • 5 S Shriners Hospitals for Children 1
  • 6 A Anderson Hospital 1
  • 7 A Ascension Saint Joseph - Joliet 1
  • 8 A Ascension Saint Francis Hospital 1
  • 9 U UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial logo UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial 1
  • 10 A Ascension Saint Mary Hospital 1
  • 11 J John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County 1
  • 12 S Sinai Community Institute 1
  • 13 B Blessing Hospital 1
  • 14 A Ascension Saint Joseph 1
  • 15 H Holy Cross Hospital logo Holy Cross Hospital 1
  • 16 L Loyola Women's Health 1
  • 17 O OSF Little Company of Mary Medical Center 1
  • 18 H Humboldt Park Health 1
  • 19 R Rush Oak Park Hospital 1
  • 20 T Thorek Memorial Hospital 1
  • 21 G Good Shepherd Hospital MSICU 1
  • 22 K Kildare Clinic 1
  • 23 A Advocate Condell Medical Center 1
  • 24 C Carle at The Fields 1
  • 25 F Franciscan St. James Health logo Franciscan St. James Health 1
  • 26 O OSF Sacred Heart Medical Center 1
  • 27 K Kindred Hospital 1
  • 28 S South Shore Hospital 1
  • 29 O OSF St Joseph Medical Center 1
  • 30 S Swedish American Hospital 1
  • 31 S Saint Francis Hospital 1
  • 32 O OSF Saint Francis Medical Center 1
  • 33 V Veterans Affairs Illiana Medical Center 1
  • 34 G Gateway Regional Medical Center 1
  • 35 A Advocate Christ Medical Center 1
  • 36 N Northwestern Medicine Valley West Hospital 1
  • 37 P Provident Hospital 1
  • 38 M Mercy Medical Center logo Mercy Medical Center 1
  • 39 U UChicago Medicine at Ingalls logo UChicago Medicine at Ingalls 1
  • 40 A Ascension Saint Joseph Elgin 1
  • 41 L Loretto Hospital 1
  • 42 F Fitzsimmons Hospital Services 1
  • 43 N Northwestern Medicine Palos Hospital 1
  • 44 E Edward Hospital 1
  • 45 O OSF Medical Group 1
  • 46 G Gold Coast 1
  • 47 E Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare 1
  • 48 T Tinley Park Hospital 1
  • 49 D Dcam Outpatient Pharma 1
  • 50 M Macneal Hospital 1

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