Trends · data through September 2026

Ice Cream & Frozen Treats in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 1,103 stores from 474 ice cream & frozen treats in Illinois. TCBY grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Creamery and Country Style Ice Cream.

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
474
Tracked stores
1,103
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked ice cream & frozen treats

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. TCBY and Creamery sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T TCBY logo TCBY ▲4 +17.7%
2 C Creamery ▲2 +9.0%
3 C Country Style Ice Cream - +8.5%
4 M Menchie's Frozen Yogurt logo Menchie's Frozen Yogurt ▲1 +4.8%
5 K Kilwins logo Kilwins - +1.3%
6 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard - -3.5%
7 J Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams logo Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams - -3.6%
8 L La Michoacana - -5.9%
9 O Oberweis logo Oberweis - -6.0%
10 T Tropical Sno - -7.3%
11 T The Scoop ▲1 -7.7%
12 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -10.1%
13 B Ben & Jerry's logo Ben & Jerry's - -10.9%
14 R Red Mango logo Red Mango ▼2 -11.4%
15 K Krekels Custard ▼1 -12.2%
  • Baskin-Robbins
  • Dairy Queen
  • La Michoacana
  • Oberweis
  • La Michoacana Premium
  • Andy's Frozen Custard
  • Cold Stone Creamery
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,103 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Baskin-Robbins (119)
  • Dairy Queen (267)
  • La Michoacana (41)
  • Oberweis (31)
  • La Michoacana Premium (14)
  • Andy's Frozen Custard (18)
  • Cold Stone Creamery (29)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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